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This systematic study offers a thorough examination of the incorporation of renewable energy systems in intelligent buildings, consolidating insights from 20 scholarly works. The study investigates the role of technical progress, specifically in Smart Building Energy Management Systems (SBEMS) and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), in enabling the effective integration of renewable energy sources. The study emphasizes the crucial significance of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in improving the efficiency of renewable energy use. Moreover, it examines the environmental, economic, and social consequences of incorporating renewable energy into intelligent buildings, such as decreased carbon emissions, financial savings on energy expenses, and enhanced comfort for occupants. The review also examines the impact of legislative frameworks and economic factors on the implementation of environmentally-friendly construction methods. This study provides useful insights to the field of sustainable urban development and energy-efficient building design by evaluating current trends, difficulties, and research needs. The results emphasize the crucial significance of improving the integration of renewable energy in intelligent buildings as a primary approach to attaining worldwide sustainability objectives and transitioning towards a future with reduced carbon emissions. 

Keywords: Renewable energy integration, Smart buildings, Energy management systems, Sustainability, Internet of Things (IoT), Green technology

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Research purpose: The purpose of research is to examine the research trend on the topic of digital collaboration in supply chains. This study focuses on solving problems related to the topic: overall volume, growth pattern, geographical distribution, the most important source (journals or conferences), authors and research groups (through number of published documents and citations), documents (through number of citations and number of citations per year) and topics (through frequency of keywords.

Research motivation: Digital technology is booming and has the potential to help eliminate the trust barrier in supply chain collaboration. However, this topic is still new in terms of theory, and more general research is needed to identify the foundation research studies, research trends, research gap, and the most influence authors. This is the main motivation of this study.

Research design, approach, and method: This article used Bibliometric analysis to examine trends in the literature regarding digital collaboration in supply chains. The samples are selected from the Scopus database. VOS viewer tools are used to process the data and extract the map.

Main findings: The study focuses on four main aspects: (i) overall volume, growth pattern and geographic distribution of the extant publications on digital collaboration in supply chains, (ii) Scientific collaboration network analysis, (iii) the most important outlets, research groups and publications on digital collaboration in supply chains, (iv) the most important research topics on digital collaboration in supply chains.

Keywords: Digital Collaboration; Supply Chain; Bibliometric; Literature Review; Research trend 

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Despite being received increasing attention from academic scholars, there have yet any review study on the topic of start-up success. This work fulfills this research gap by investigating 1554 start-up success documents collected from Scopus dataset between 1981 and 2019. Using bibliometric analysis, we reveal that the topic of start-up success only receives more attention from academic scholars since 2011 onwards. Regarding geographical distribution, the US, Germany, and the UK are the three countries contributing the highest number of start-up success related documents. Besides, it’s revealed that 305 (or 19.6%) start-up success documents were published in the top 20 journals. The co-author analysis found that the research groups of start-up success are still small and dispersed and there was a lack of continuity in the research. The science mapping identified six main topics of start-up success, including: (1) Business in General, (2) Start-up Ecosystem, (iii) Academic Start-up, (iv) Drivers of Start-up Success, (v) Resources for start-up, and (vi) Start-up Model. The study’s findings provide implications for stakeholders, including academic scholars, policymakers, start-up owners, entrepreneurs, and practitioners.

Keywords: Bibliometrics, Research Trend, Review, Science mapping, scientometric, Start-up, Success 

Abstract: The topic of startup success is receiving more and more attention from scholars, although there are still no comprehensive studies on this topic. This study contributes to this research gap by collecting the studies of scholars from the Southeast Asia (SEA) region from the Scopus dataset from 2001-2020. Research focuses on solving problems related to the topic: overall volume, growth pattern, geographical distribution, the most important source (journals or conferences), authors and research groups (through number of published documents and citations), documents (through number of citations and number of citations per year) and topics (through frequency of keywords. Excel and VOS viewer tools are used to process the data and extract the maps.

Keywords: startup, success, bibliometrics, review, science mapping.

Abstract: The process of applying research results from academic sector to industries always facing many difficulties and pitfalls. Between invention and product development is "the valley of death", which destroys the development effort from the original idea to the end market. Bridging support is needed to improve the transfer of research from research institutes, universities to businesses and technology development organizations. In this study, the research team proposes STIC (Science and Technology Incubation Centers) model at universities and research institutes of Vietnam to serve knowledge transfer, commercialize inventions and promote innovation. 

Keywords: Incubation; S&T enterprises; Knowledge transfer; Commercialization; Incubator model; STIC.  

Abstract: For entrepreneurs to be successful in any country, they need a favourable environment in which they can develop their ideas and grow their business. The concept of this environment, an ecosystem, is rooted in earlier developments around science parks and industrial district movements. Within every entrepreneurial ecosystem much attention is focused on the role and health of its start-up component. Vietnam has experienced significant and rapid economic growth in the last twenty years; and, this shift has seen the county acknowledged as a leading nation for start-ups in Southeast Asia. As a result, an increasing number of start-ups are being formed among university students, lecturers, and researchers, especially those in Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths (STEM) disciplines. However, one of the main obstacles most start-up projects is raising capital for deploying and commercializing scientific and technological R&D results. In many Western countries (e.g. USA, UK and the EU), University venture capital funds (UVCs) have been created in an attempt to overcome this barrier. In this paper we discuss how can one university in Vietnam - Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) - establish an innovative start-up investment fund (the BK Fund). Theoretical and practical studies on setting up University venture capital funds will be necessary for HUST to overcome the legal barriers, financial resources difficulties and other constrains during the fund’s establishment and implementation process.

Keywords: University venture capital fund, start-up, spinoff, HUST 

Abstract: Development of science and technology (S&T) enterprises is one of the important tasks defined and implemented with full efforts by the Party and the State of Vietnam. Up to recent time, however, the development works face certain difficulties and troubles. The paper provides an overview of the development status of S&T enterprises in actual context and, then, proposes solutions to push up the establishment and development of this specific type of enterprises in Vietnam in the future. 

Keywords: Science-technology enterprises; Spin-off; Start-up