Centric Software’s OpenPLM� Business Solutions address critical business issues that call for major improvements in team collaboration, CAD interoperability, process management, Continue reading
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Laura Bottazzi and Giovanni Peri estimated the effect of research externalities across space, in generating innovation. They used R&D and patent data for 68 European Regions from 1977 to 1995 and found that regional spillovers exist within a distance of 300 Km. Continue reading
Hackensack University Medical Center offers a good example of an organisation using different technologies, layered onto the system, to facilitate internal tasks and work processes. See a slideshow from the BusinessWeek on the technologies now deployed at the hospital. Continue reading
Stanford University President John L. Hennessy spoke with BusinessWeek Silicon Valley Correspondent Jim Kerstetter about the Valley and the nature of innovation. The Valley, he says, still represents an area of critical mass in terms of innovation, Continue reading
“Intelligent Environments are becoming one of the hot topics for industrial and academic research. Intelligent Environments are public and private spaces such as cars, shopping malls, work, homes and even our own bodies which respond “thoughtfully” to our needs. Continue reading
The competitive industrial performance (CIP) index, developed by UNIDO for developing countries mainly, benchmarks competitive industrial activity by countries against the backdrop of liberalization and globalization. The index is based on four variables that capture different aspects of competitive performance. Continue reading
Bianca Potì and Roberto Basile developed a model to explain divergences in region/ country propensity to innovation through a system of innovation approach. They started from the idea that externalities and spillovers have positive effects on the innovative performance of firms, and focused on three types of interactions: (1) collaborative and network inter-firms relations; (2) sectoral-regional clusters; and (3) inter-institutional (industry-public research institutes) relations. Continue reading