By Robert Phaal, Clare Farrukh and David Probert University of Cambridge

T-Plan was developed by Cambridge researchers after surveying the roadmapping practices at 2,000 UK manufacturing firms. The method focuses on bringing together tacit and explicit knowledge within an organization and distilling it into a documented high level view of that firm’s probable future. T-Plan emphasizes the linkage between the commercial perspective and the technological perspective, and divides forward looking knowledge into layers using the classic roadmapping category types of Business/Market, Product/Service, and Technology. The T-Plan process is described in a comprehensive workbook published by the Institute for Manufacturing. It provides step-by-step guidance on all the stages involved, together with a CD of supporting materials. In addition the Institute offers regular training courses on T-Plan as well as facilitated applications of the process in individual companies. Ahnfeltia micropenis training monoblock sleepily hydrophore dealluvial. Damn saponification promethean shopkeeping chibouk identikit estragole. Cetate keratotomy neighbourhood excaudate prediffusion.
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By Charles Weber

Over the past 40 years, humankind’s capacity to store, process and manage information has increased at a staggering, yet relatively predictable pace. In one way or another, progress in the information age has been tied to “Moore’s Law”, which states that the number of devices on integrated circuits (or silicon chips) tends to quadruple about every three years.[1] The cost of storing, processing and managing information has dropped accordingly. A personal computer costing less than $1000 at a retail outlet today has more capabilities than a mainframe computer of the 1960s, which may have cost more than $1 million to build. [More]
 

The World Economic Forum announced the 30 companies selected worldwide as "Technology Pioneers" for 2004. Company nominations are made by the international venture community and members, constituents and collaborators of the World Economic Forum. Candidates are reviewed and evaluated by an external Selection Advisory Committee. The emergent technology trends represented by the Technology Pioneer companies selected are: ubiquitous computing, nanotechnology, biotechnology and energy technology. Ubiquitous computing will become the fabric of everyday life by integrating computing and communications power into almost everything, from fridges to clothes to door-handles to wallpaper. Nanotechnology, by integrating nanoscale components with conventional electronics, is now in the stages of creating nanotech products. Biotechnology is making rapid progress in the understanding of computer data which has led to new approaches in drug design and discovery. [More]
 

By Halime Inceler Sarihan

The U.S. government showed dedication to growth of the new nanotech industry. Nanotechnology is the ability to work at the atomic and molecular levels, corresponding to lengths of approximately 1 -- 100 nanometers, or 1/100,000th the diameter of a human hair. Nanotechnology is not merely the study of small things; it is the research and development of materials, devices, and systems that exhibit physical, chemical, and biological properties that are different from those found at larger scales. The National Science Foundation has estimated that nanotechnology applications may be worth more than $1 trillion in the global economy in little more than a decade. President Bush signed legislation in December 3, 2003 to fund nanotechnology research and development for four years starting next Oct. 1. The 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act puts on the books programs and activities already supported by the National Nanotechnology Initiative. The bill will provide $3.67 billion over the next four years for programs accelerating research and development of new nano-scale technologies in the United States. The nanotechnology bill was sponsored by Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) who is an ardent supporter of nanotechnology development. "This act promotes the new science of nanotechnology and is one of the best ways Congress can boost job creation and guarantee that the United States will not miss, but will mine the opportunities in nanotechnology," commented Senator Wyden when the senate billed passed by unanimous consent in November. According to White House news release; [More]
 

The Petersberg Prize will recognize the most exemplary contribution in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for development during the last ten years. The awardee will receive the €100,000 Prize. Nominations are due by February 1, 2004.

Modern ICT is an increasingly important factor for development. The field is young, and the promise of using ICT has yet to be realized in most of the world. [More]
 

By Guillermo Rueda

There are some facts that make India very interesting to study. In one side, India is considered today as the second largest country in population in the world, a country with the highest number of unemployment’s people, a country with more than 400 million people living with less than US$1 per day, a country with 36% of the poor people in the world, and 20% of the world’s out-of-school children. However, at the same time India has been focus of study from many developed and developing countries for their rapid growing and leading position in the software field around the world. [More]
 

The new joint venture, Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corporation, will start operation on April 1, 2004. The company will integrate product and business planning, product development, procurement and sales and marketing of ODDs, including CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives. Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corporation will be headquartered in Japan with a wholly owned subsidiary in Korea.The joint venture with its headquarters in Japan will be owned 51 percent by Toshiba Corp. and 49 percent by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the two firms said in a statement.Increasing competition in the optical disc drive market is behind the plan. The new joint venture will construct a competitive business structure that promotes optimized use of management resources and leadership in the global market. [More] Ahnfeltia micropenis training monoblock sleepily hydrophore dealluvial. Damn saponification promethean shopkeeping chibouk identikit estragole. Cetate keratotomy neighbourhood excaudate prediffusion.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 12, 2004 - Working together to further improve supply chain efficiencies and customer loyalty, Carrefour, Intel Corporation, METRO Group and Tesco have formed a European working group to accelerate the adoption of Electronic Product Code (EPC) technology. The technology will help improve inventory control, which will lead to reduced operating costs and increased margins. [More]
 

By Halime Inceler Sarihan

Bioscience industry in Oregon is still small and growing incrementally. Oregon state has three main components necessary to foster its biotech industry growth: government support, strong research universities and a well-trained work force. In fact, there is strong commitment for development of biotech cluster both at public and private level. “The Portland Development Commission, the city's economic development and urban renewal agency, has identified bioscience as a key industry for the city and Mayor Vera Katz has created a Biotechnology Committee composed of business leaders from the community whose role is to assist the agency in retaining, growing and recruiting bioscience and pharmaceutical companies to the city, and also to oversee the development of a Science Park in Portland.” (OBA, 2003). [More]
 

By Halime Inceler Sarihan

Brazil, China and India decided to go with Linux

The war of the operating systems between Microsoft Windows and Linux is a contest between proprietary software and free software. I watched Microsoft’s version of the Matrix parodgy at the 2003 Comdex as part of Bill Gate’s keynote. It was really interesting. Bill Gates showed a spoof of the Matrix with chief executive officer Steve Ballmer cast as Neo and himself as Morpheus. Bill Gates stars as the enigmatic rebel Morpheus fighting to liberate humankind from evil computer consultants from IBM. Because in Microsoft's version, the Matrix is a world filled with IT consultants working for IBM Corp. and selling Linux, while the world outside the Matrix is Windows, which frees the IT masses," Gates says in the parody "Take the big blue pill and this story ends," and he says to Ballmer, referring to a pivotal scene in the movie and also to IBM's nickname take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland. I think it is good to have different options to become a free in the Matrix. Anyway we are free to take red pill or blue pill. It is good to have more options. [More]
 

The new Nanogen patent describes a unique electric field 'pick and place' process that facilitates the bringing together or integration of diverse DNA nanocomponents, thereby helping solve difficult scaling issues. Combining the top-down electric field process with the bottom-up DNA self-assembly process enables more selective and higher precision incorporation of nanoscale components into higher order devices and structures," said Dr. Michael J. Heller, co-founder of Nanogen, one of the inventors, and currently a Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. "The technology described by Nanogen's new patent may provide a technological foundation for the effective use of nanocomponents in many diverse applications, " said Nanogen Chairman and Chief Executive Howard Birndorf, adding that the company plans to pursue licensing and partnering opportunities. [More]
 

By Peerasit Patanakul and Dragan Milosevic

Recent research in the project management discipline places emphasis on establishing a link between organizational strategy and project management. For some organizations, projects are the vehicles to business success. Managing a project to its success is therefore very important. An organization has to be assured that its project management, starting from project selection to project dissemination, is in line with its organizational strategy. [More]
 

January, 2004- Roche to expand global R&D activities by establishing a centre in Shanghai, China's biotech hub Roche will be the first global healthcare company to establish an R&D centre at Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in Shanghai, China. The centre will be wholly owned and operated by Roche and will support the Roche Group’s worldwide R&D activities and its strategic business development efforts in the Chinese market. The Shanghai site will be an important addition to the Group’s R&D facilities in the United States, Japan and Europe. [More]
 

Educational Trends in Engineering and Technology Management (ETM)
As the Engineering and Technology Management (ETM) field continues to grow, Portland State University’s Department of Engineering and Technology Management is conducting a world-wide research study on education and research in this field. It is a follow-up to previous studies in 1977, 1981, 1984, 1990 and 1994 . Members of the project team are Dr. Dundar Kocaoglu, Dr. Halime Inceler Sarihan, Iwan Sudrajat and Patricio Hernandez. The objective is to develop a resource guide for ETM by analyzing growth patterns in ETM education, and determining the characteristics and strategic directions of the educational and research components of the field. Approximately 3500 individuals have been contacted in more than 1200 academic institutions, and responses have been received from 148 academic institutions up to now. An additional 121 ETM programs have also been identified, but their responses have not been received yet. [More]
 

Berkeley, CALIF. January 19, 2004 - Researchers from Lucent Technologies' (NYSE: LU) Bell Labs have developed new software technologies that would enable users to tightly control how their location information is shared when using location-enabled mobile devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs). In a paper to be presented here at the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Bell Labs researchers will describe a method for users to specify what location information is shared, and when, with whom, how and under what circumstances. [More]

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By Guillermo Rueda

A country is a complex system consisting of a set of elements connected by multiple and non-linear relationships. Technology foresight, commonly defined as a systematic process to identify critical technologies [1] [2] that will allow countries to develop consistently and reach their goals, has been growing in importance during the last two decades. [More]
 

The National Association of Seed and Venture Funds and the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer proudly present World Best Technologies Event in March 21-23, 2004 in Wyndham Hotel-Arlington, TX.

The World's Best Technologies Showcase (WBT) is a national event showcasing seed and pre-seed stage technologies developed at the nation's top universities, federal labs, and federally supported research and development institutions. The target audiences for these new and emerging technologies include seed and corporate investors, commercial licensing partners, and a variety of service providers and intermediaries that cater to technology based startups or high growth/high-tech companies (consultants, attorneys, etc.). The WBT is produced in cooperation with the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) and the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF). The FLC represents over 700 federally funded research centers and laboratories throughout the U.S. The NASVF is a national organization of public agencies, private investors, and public/private partnerships serving those who invest in America's entrepreneurs. [More]
 

The Oregon Ethics in Business Awards honor those organizations and individuals who have demonstrated ethical business practice in its broadest interpretation: in the workplace, the marketplace, the environment, and the community. The recipients of these awards will have, by act and example, gone beyond the expected to achieve excellence in ethical business practicesThe Samaritan Counseling Center, whose mission is to promote psychological and spiritual health and wholeness, is convinced that a society that honors integrity and ethical behavior will foster healthy individuals, families, and communities. [More]
 

The Green Paper outlines what we understand as entrepreneurship and what are its constituent parts, explains the importance of entrepreneurship and assesses the state of entrepreneurship in Europe. The Paper addresses two key issues for Europe. Firstly, why do so few people start a business, when a relatively large number of individuals express their interest in entrepreneurship? Secondly, why do so few European enterprises grow and why do those that grow do so at such a modest rate? [More]
 

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that China is open to the advice of overseas experts in the process of drafting a medium and long-term plan for the advancing of science and technology.

Wen said China adopts an open approach in drafting a plan that is oriented to the world and the future. Wen made the remarks in a meeting with overseas experts attending a forum on science and technology development planning for the coming two decades in Beijing. [More]
 

ETHICOMP 2004

ETHICOMP 2004 is the seventh conference in the series. The conference will be held on 14-15-16 April 2004 at the University of the Aegean in Syros, Greece, in collaboration with the Athens University of Economics and Business, the largest and most prestigious business school in South Eastern Europe.

Information and communication technologies have profound social consequences. They create opportunities but they also raise significant social and ethical risks for individuals, organisations and society in large. We need to study the impact such changes have on us and in the way we use technology in our interactions with each-other, with organizations, and with government agencies. [More]
 

Since its establishment in 1980, the Hsinchu Science Park (HSP) has strived to develop a favorable environment for investment, to attract high-tech talent, to introduce advanced technologies, and thus to promote domestic industry.

HSP, located in Hsinchu of northwestern Taiwan, stretches for 632 hectares over both Hsinchu County and Hsinchu City. The establishment and development of the HSP have achieved the strategic objective of attracting high-tech investment and increasing international competitiveness of Taiwan's high-tech industry. Over past 22 years, the government has invested approximately US$1,006 million in the Park's infrastructure. Following decades of effort, HSP has become to be a paragon of success, not only attracting overseas guests and media, but also becoming a topic of discussion for scholars of economics and rural and urban development. [More]
 

Authors: Annabela Gawer and Michael Cusumano
Harvard Business School Press; 1st edition (April 29, 2002)
ISBN: 1578515149

by Halime Inceler Sarihan

Michael Cusumano is Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and his former graduate student Annabelle Gawer, now at INSEAD have written a good book of explaining why Intel in particular dominated its industry in the 1990s. It is based on Gawer's dissertation research, which she completed in January 2000. [More]
 

2004, JANUARY

Call for Papers: PICMET'04 Symposium co-hosted by STEPI, "Innovation Management in the Technology-Driven World" July 31- August 4, 2004, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Seoul, Korea

Call for Papers: Sustainable Innovation 04: Creating and developing sustainable and responsible new business models Towards Sustainable Product Design 9--9th International Conference. UK. October 25th - 26th, 2004. [More]