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Vimal Kumar is an Assistant Professor at the Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan (R.O.C.) in the Department of Information Management. He completed his Postdoctoral Research at the Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan (R.O.C.) in the Department of Business Administration in the domain of Technological Innovation and Patent Analysis. He has served as an Assistant Professor under TEQIP III, an initiative of MHRD, Govt. of India at AEC Guwahati in the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering. Prior to joining AEC, he served as an Assistant Professor at MANIT, Bhopal, in the Department of Management Studies and also served as Visiting Faculty at IMT Nagpur. He obtained his PhD in the domain of TQM and Manufacturing Strategy in the year 2017 and master’s in Supply Chain Management from the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur, in the year 2012. He graduated (BTech) in Manufacturing Technology from JSS Academy of Technical Education Noida, in the year 2010. He has published 32 articles in reputable international journals and presented 24 papers at international conferences. His research paper entitled “Time Table Scheduling for Educational Sector on an E-Governance Platform: A Solution from an Analytics Company” has been selected for best paper award at the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) held in Bandung, Indonesia, March 6–8, 2018. He was also invited to serve as session chair of session on “Energy Related Awareness” held on September 19, 2018, at iCAST 2018, IEEE International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology and “Lean Six Sigma” at the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM-2018) at Bandung, Indonesia and “Quality Control and Management” at the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM-2016) at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is a contributing author in international journals including Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Technology in Society, JEEE, IJOA, BSE, TFSC, JKM, CSREM, IJPPM, IJQRM, IJPMB, IJPQM, IJBIS, AJOR, The TQM Journal and Benchmarking: An International Journal, etc., and also a guest reviewer of a reputable journal like IJQRM, TQM and Business Excellence, The TQM Journal, Benchmarking: An International Journal, Journal of Asia Business Studies and JSIT.

Ha Thi The Nguyen is a doctoral student at the Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan.

Ankesh Mittal is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Asra College of Engineering and Technology, Punjab, India. He received his BTech and MTech degrees from Chitkara University, Punjab, India, and Thapar University, Patiala, India, in 2013 and 2015, respectively, and a PhD degree from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology Longowal, Punjab, in 2021. His areas of research are total quality management and production engineering. He has published in various national and international journals of repute and conference proceedings.

Kuei-Kuei Lai is the Vice President and a professor of the Department of Business Administration, Chaoyang University of Technology Taichung, Taiwan. He has served as a Professor and the Chairman of the Department of Business Administration, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He received his PhD degree in the Graduate Institute of Management Sciences from Tamkang University in Taiwan. His research interest focuses on the management of technology in patent citation analysis, patent portfolio and patent family and technological forecasting.