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This paper examines the rationales the firms collaborate with the universities. Using information from a mail survey, this study examines the optimal collaboration mode for conveying the firms' strategic intents to interact with the universities. We test hypotheses from the knowledge-based view of the firm using information from a survey of 91 usable questionnaires out of 645 Taiwanese firms. Our...
Understanding technology evolution through periodic landscaping is an important stage of strategic planning in R&D Management. In fields like that of healthcare, where the initial R&D investment is huge and good medical product serve patients better, these activities become crucial. Approximately five percentage of the world population has hearing disabilities. Current hearing aid products...
Numerous investigators have explored the growth and value of the technology transfer process from universities to industry. Regional and national organizations have extolled the virtues of technology transfer and the growth in technology entrepreneurship has been touted as a major contributor to regional economic development. The characteristics and structure of technology transfer organizations and...
Firms rely more and more on external collaboration partners to reduce the R&D cost as well as shorten the product life cycle. Open innovation become a new paradigm for firms to become competitive in a highly dynamic business environment. Firm's collaboration partner extents from customers, suppliers to university, research institute, and even competitors, the resource based view hold that different...
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have received considerable attention in the field of public management, business management, and strategy. However, researchers have mostly focused on public policies, public sector reform, and social problems, leaving how PPPs co-create value largely studied. Aiming at theorizing PPPs, this study reviews research on PPPs and value-based strategies including value...
The objective of this paper is to present the methodology used for identifying the best Brazilian universities and professors in research topics of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) sector. This analysis was part of the R&D Lab planning activities in order to establish cooperative research projects with local universities. The motivation arises from the fact that Brazilian research...
The paper aims to propose an approach for evaluating and prioritizing a technological idea portfolio, supporting a R&D Lab to select the ideas that can produce better outputs in innovation technology projects in partnership with Universities. Research methodology is based on analysis of the literature about Project and Technology Portfolio Management, the criteria for measuring innovation (Oslo...
This paper describes in brief overview the development of the Electrostatics Processes Committee from its origins within the AIEE to its current position as part of the IAS Annual Meetings. Its expansion of subject matter is highlighted and the development of recent international collaborations with other societies is discussed.
Support processes play an important role to facilitate researchers (users) to accomplish their research activities with the help of cyber-infrastructure(s). However, the current user-support practices in cyber-infrastructure are being followed without an accountability and ownership of tasks thus over-burdening user support staffs who are performing user support on a free-will basis. This research...
Via the survey based on 400 eleventh grade students from five distinct high schools in Shanghai, we learned about the actual situation of CSCL and its connection with high-school level courses in Shanghai. Through this research, we found that the electronic equipment is not a restricted factor for CSCL in high schools of Shanghai any more. On the other hand, it is shown that the teachers were not...
A product optimization based on Value Analysis principle involves taking into account the end-user opinions on product expressed by the product functions. This point of view emphasizes differences between the manufacturer's perception and the end-user's perception on what functions of the product are important. These differences are also influenced by the end-users' segmentation according to the marketing...
In this paper, we expounds a cloud model of smartphone industry, and achieved consumers actively participate in the customization services of smartphone. Through social production theory and the combination of cloud computing services, use many kinds of 3D technology, new process technology of cooperative management, e-commerce, logistics and wisdom dynamic value chain analysis and so on. Using many...
Quality education leading to potential employment is essential for the growth of a nation. This still remains a challenge in India despite much contemporary technological advancement. It is also an evident fact that, the major hiring sectors like IT and manufacturing are facing a slow-down and hence an immediate impact on unemployment. The issue of excess of educated unemployed students must be addressed,...
Based on the 2002-2011 statistic data, carry out quantitative analysis on the industrial structure evolution of China Yunan central region in recently 10 years with GIS spatial analysis technology and method, industrial structure entropy, industrial structure conversion speed coefficient, industrial structure conversion direction coefficient and shift-share method. The results show that the total...
The practical training is one of the key measures of quality technical vocational training of skilled personnel. The paper studies the training base construction method, explores new ideas and communications technology professionals in vocational training through a school-enterprise cooperation, which forms a new type engineering practice center and communications technology professional development...
In this paper, the spatial pattern analysis is made on the development level difference among the primary industry, secondary industry and tertiary industry in 11 counties and cities with Class-I ports. The analytical results show that the economic development is unbalanced and quite different in these counties of Yunnan Province with Class-I ports.
The paper summarizes success stories of Finnish and Russian research organizations that joined forces towards development of leading-edge ICT competences and their use in multidisciplinary applications. The partner organizations from both countries have developed close collaboration framework, which enabled them to implement three crossborder cooperation projects co-funded by the Karelia ENPI CBC...
Quality of the civil engineering in a city can demonstrate the level of economic development, city image and the ability of governance of this specific area. Utilizing data mining method and algorithm, as well as the quality index of the civil engineering constructed from a large scale consumer survey, the results revealed that, as a whole, the quality of civil engineering in China is not quite good...
Cooperative education programs (co-op), also referred to as Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), provide students with relevant professional experiences in industry. This industry-focused environment presents an opportunity for students to clarify academic and career objectives prior to finishing their studies. This first stage of a four-phase research project explores undergraduate engineering students'...
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