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Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2011
necessary to support the development of new collaboration forms among industry and education. Virtual research and development …Introduction: With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the … norm in education and industry [1]. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses …
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Effective Virtual Teams for New Product Development
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Rashid, Salwa … - HAL - 2012
At present, the existing literature shows that the factors which influence the effectiveness of virtual teams for new product development are still ambiguous. To address this problem, a research design was developed, which includes detailed literature review, preliminary model and field survey....
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Information and the Modern Corporation
Cortada, James W. - The MIT Press
While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more than eighty percent of workers collect and...
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Information Technology and People: Designing for the Future
Blackler, Frank (contributor); Oborne, David (contributor) - The MIT Press
, applicability, and acceptability, giving an overview of current research on information technology at work, at home, in education … systems; expert systems in the health field; health care; the disabled; computers in education; attitudes toward the new …
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The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity
Hausmann, Ricardo; Hidalgo, Cesar - The MIT Press
Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas of Economic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "Economic Complexity," a measure of a society’s productive knowledge. Prosperous societies are those that have the knowledge to make a larger variety of more...
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Building effective virtual teams: How to overcome the problems of trust and identity in virtual teams
Kimble, Chris - HAL - 2010
This article explores some of the challenges faced when managing virtual teams, in particular the role played by trust and identity in virtual teams. It outlines why teams and virtual teams have become a valuable part of the modern organization and presents ten short case studies that illustrate...
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Virtual R & D teams in small and medium enterprises: A literature review
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2009
collaboration in SMEs. Specifying the foundation and importance of virtual teams, the relationship between virtual R & D team and …Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the driving engine behind economic growth. While SMEs play a critical role in … development (R & D) aspect deserves particular attention to promote and facilitate the operations of SMEs. Virtual R & D team …
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SMEs; Virtual research and development (R&D) teams and new product development: A literature review
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2010
literature review is to provide an outline on the structure and dynamics of R&D collaboration in SMEs. Specifying the rationale …Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a … be a viable option to sustain and ease the operations of SMEs. However, literature shows there has not been a great deal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820853
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Intellectual Property Strategy
Palfrey, John - The MIT Press
Most managers leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization’s intellectual property can help accomplish a range of management goals, from accessing new markets to improving existing products to generating new revenue streams. In this book,...
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Technology, Engineering, and Economics
Sporn, Philip - The MIT Press
From the foreword by Howard W. Johnson: "Philip Sporn's long and distinguished career has been at the interface of economics, engineering, and management. His accomplishments as an engineer, an engineering manager, and finally as an executive, have been marked by an innovative approach to...
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