CALL FOR PAPERS for 2015 MakeLearn and TIIM Joint Conference in Bari, Italy “Technology Innovation and Industrial Management” Special Issue: Journal of Asia Pacific Business Innovation and Technology Management Special issue guest Editors Dr Kuo Ping Lin (Lead guest editor) Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology Taiwan. E-mail: [email protected] Dr Ru-Jen Lin Professor, Department of Business Administration, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology Taiwan. E-mail: [email protected] Dr Kim Hua Tan Reader, Business School, University of Nottingham, England, United Kingdom. E-mail: [email protected] Introduction Technology Innovation has become increasingly fashionable in recent years, four global trends led to industrial management. This global trend generates more volume, variety and velocity of data than ever before, which makes technology Innovation more difficult to manage and analyse in the industry. Technology Innovation can be helpful to support global manufacturing and supply chain innovation by creating eco-products, improving human decision-making and promoting innovative business models (Tseng et al., 2013). However, there is a lack of theoretical and analytical techniques available to help decision makers and managers to capture and harvest the potential value of practices. Thus, a technology Innovation infrastructure that helps decision makers to apply in business model to serve as inputs for decision making of business model is necessary (Lin et al., 2013). Though, there are a variety of innovation theories to apply in industry, currently. Still, technology innovation is incapable to handle and apply in the industry in some perspectives. How should one address this seeming contradiction between profit maximization and environment together that drives resource flow and the required to resource efficiency improvement? We believe the technology innovation of the firm is one key element. Hence, this special volume is  To characterize technology innovation that concurrently improve the eco-sustainability and competitiveness of a firm?  To be designed and validated for technology innovation approach of different types in the industries?  To effects on the value-chain the firm’s technology innovation is part of?  What are the technology innovation effects on product design, modularization and interfaces? The question this special issue would like to address is “How to harvest technology innovation to assist the decision-makers to deliver better fact-based decisions aimed at improving performance? Especially, we are interested in studies that apply tools from operations research, statistics, and computer science to offer novel insights for managers and policymakers in the manufacturing operations supply chain context. Publication Schedule  Manuscript submission: September 01, 2015. Publication date: January 01, 2016  Please submit to E-mail: [email protected] (Dr Thomas Chen)  Submission guideline http://www.isbitm.org/journal/2/volumes/4/articles References  Tseng, M.L., Wang, R., Chiu, A.S.F., Geng, Y., Lin, Y.H. (2013). Improving performance of green innovation practices in uncertainty. Journal of Cleaner Production 40, 71-82  Lin, Y.H., Tseng, M.L., Cheng, Y.L., Chiu, A.S.F., Geng, Y. (2013). Performance evaluation of technological innovation capabilities in uncertainty. Scientific Research & Essays 8(13), 501-514