TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kamprath, Martin
A1  - Mietzner, Dana
T1  - The impact of sectoral changes on individual competences: A reflective scenario-based approach in the creative industries
JF  - Technological forecasting & social change
N2  - Many foresight studies concentrate on technological foresight and its impact at the organizational level. However, often these studies overlook the soft factor of employee competences which is critical to adopting technological and organizational changes and to developing the necessary innovation capabilities. This study investigates the theoretical and methodological underdeveloped relationship between technological innovation and social initiated change and the impact on individual competences in a dynamic sector. The setting of our study is the turbulent creative industries as a whole, where creative and artistic expression merges with changing technological progress. In a scenario study we mainly conducted in 2010, we developed a scenario model for competences to combine individual competences with a scenario approach to investigate how competences are important to the sector shift or need to be enhanced in the future. We use primary qualitative data from expert interviews and workshops and secondary data from industry reports to identify thirty-seven influence factors. An influence matrix calculation and a cluster analysis are used to project three different scenarios presenting how future developments of the creative industries will influence the competences needed for creative occupations. Now, five years later, we reflect the accuracy of the developed scenarios via a comparison of today's situation with the situation in the scenarios. We discuss theoretical contributions for the foresight literature and practical implementations for the future of work in general, and in particular for the creative industries case. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
KW  - Creative industries
KW  - Creative economy
KW  - Digital
KW  - Convergence
KW  - Media
KW  - Entertainment
KW  - Scenario
KW  - Foresight
KW  - Futures studies
KW  - Technological impact
KW  - Competences
KW  - Skills
KW  - Work
KW  - Microfoundations
KW  - Human capital resource
KW  - Strategic human resources
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2015.01.011
SN  - 0040-1625
SN  - 1873-5509
VL  - 95
SP  - 252
EP  - 275
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stefanakis, Nikolaos
A1  - Abel, Markus
A1  - Bergner, Andre
T1  - Sound Synthesis Based on Ordinary Differential Equations
JF  - Computer music journal
N2  - Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) have been studied for centuries as a means to model complex dynamical processes from the real world. Nevertheless, their application to sound synthesis has not yet been fully exploited. In this article we present a systematic approach to sound synthesis based on first-order complex and real ODEs. Using simple time-dependent and nonlinear terms, we illustrate the mapping between ODE coefficients and physically meaningful control parameters such as pitch, pitch bend, decay rate, and attack time. We reveal the connection between nonlinear coupling terms and frequency modulation, and we discuss the implications of this scheme in connection with nonlinear synthesis. The ability to excite a first-order complex ODE with an external input signal is also examined; stochastic or impulsive signals that are physically or synthetically produced can be presented as input to the system, offering additional synthesis possibilities, such as those found in excitation/filter synthesis and filter-based modal synthesis.
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1162/COMJ_a_00314
SN  - 0148-9267
SN  - 1531-5169
VL  - 39
IS  - 3
SP  - 46
EP  - 58
PB  - MIT Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -