PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology最新文献

{"title":"Prospects for cleantech venture capital investment in China: A third wave?","authors":"Bei Chen","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261753","url":null,"abstract":"With peoples' concerns about China's environmental problems, CleanTech-related fields are getting more attentions by the Chinese government. The author studies CleanTech Venture Capital (VC) in China because it may represent a third wave of VC investments. The first two waves were Information Technology and Communication. CleanTech is different from other investment categories because it is closely related to environment protection, energy efficiency, ecosystem, government policy and sustainable development of the society. Also, it drives the innovation of technology in clean energy areas. Despite the current global economic downturn, green energy still shows its huge appeal of VC. VC investors from Silicon Valley continue to have a strong interest in the cooperation of green energy projects between China and the U.S., including electric cars, solar energy, green construction and other fields. This paper focuses on studying the current China's CleanTech VC investment environment, exploring potential investment tendency, indicating several challenges facing to the investors, and seeking practical ways to attract more investments in China's CleanTech. The study suggests several key ways to gain successes in CleanTech VC investment. Whether China's CleanTech become the third wave for VC investment needs the collaborated efforts from all the interest-related parties.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128262311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the use of biological metaphor upon technology management research within the new paradigm of ongoing change","authors":"C. Jiménez, O. Castellanos","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262244","url":null,"abstract":"A new paradigm characterized by ongoing changes at all levels is currently emerging; adaptation is the key here, rather than contingency preparation. Technology Management is not foreign to such trends and thus its assimilation and rapid response ability must become potentialized to ensure its evolution and strengthening with adaptation-orientated tools and trends of thought. This paper deals with the concept of biological metaphor which has been present in Organizational Management for many decades; it is analyzed as a Technology Management development option, taking into account its high level of interaction with other disciplines. The results show that this impact is relevant, going beyond academic and theoretical fields since its application is seen in real contexts, especially regarding Manufacturing Management. This paper concludes that industrialized countries have made important advances in learning and using biological concepts in Technology Management; however, emerging economies (such as those in Latin-American countries) have also established an appropriate framework regarding topics such as complexity, evolutionary theory and intelligence for analyzing and implementing Technology Management and adopting technological strategies according to their own particular settings.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"04 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127159482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The innovation profiles of outstanding companies in Taiwan","authors":"Celine Mei-Ya Wang, Ju-Miao Yen, Yi-Wen Chen","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262047","url":null,"abstract":"In this new century, people all realize how important innovation plays on competitiveness and pay most attention to capture it. In 1990s, European academia built up consensus on the definition and measurement of innovation and promoted the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS) in several western countries to capture the firm-level data about innovation. However, different from most innovation surveys which mainly try to gather the whole innovation picture in some industry or country, we outline the specific innovation profiles of outstanding companies to offer benchmark effect in this study. Based on the most updated CIS4 questionnaire, this study chose the nominated companies of Taiwan Industrial Technology Advancement Awards as samples and total 61 responses were collected. The results show that these outstanding companies pursue an obviously higher frequency in adopting multiple innovations. Organizational, marketing and strategic innovations also bring significant benefits on performance. On the other side, when these outstanding companies urge to enhance their innovation capability, they choose to invest R&D by themselves and centralize in Taiwan instead of cooperating with outside resources. Internationalization and open innovation are contemporary world-trends. It might be a warning for Taiwan government and industry to note.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129055591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating international business model portability: A framework for integrating economic, strategic, and cultural perspectives","authors":"T. Clark","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262254","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new, comprehensive framework for identifying and evaluating economic, cultural, and strategic dimensions of business models, then assessing international “portability”: how well a given business model is likely to perform in overseas markets. Its goal is to define and explore a potentially useful method whereby entrepreneurs, managers, and investors can evaluate a business model's likely effectiveness outside of market of origin. The paper posits that the strategic and economic logic by which an enterprise profitably acquires and serves customers — its business model — is, like a person, “imprinted” by the distinctive national environment in which it was developed. Therefore, business models, like expatriate businesspeople, achieve greater or lesser degrees of success when transplanted to foreign environments. Specifically, the paper defines a pyramid-shaped, tiered scheme for examining three distinct “layers” of a business model: Firm, Culture, and Economic. The bottom “Economic” layer comprises a typological “infrastructure” of sixteen mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive ways firms can make, sell, lease, or broker assets. The middle “Culture” tier identifies explicit and tacit assumptions of the model specific to national origin that may affect the model's international portability. The topmost “Firm” tier represents a model's individual “personality” — specific innovations or “plot twists” designed to overcome competitors and/or meet unserved customer needs.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132373361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sustainability spirit in manufacturing/machining processes","authors":"J. Kopac, F. Pušavec","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262015","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents methods for achieving production sustainability on a machining technology level. Industry is under increasing pressure from global competition, stricter environmental legislation, and supply-chain demand for improved sustainability performance. In order to tackle these issues, the paper promotes sustainable production via the improvement of machining technologies that have a high potential to cut costs and improve competitiveness by reducing resource consumption and thus creating less waste. In this way the products and processes could yield improved usefulness and have less of an environmental impact. The general issues of sustainable production technologies are in this paper covered through changes in products, systems, and processes based on sustainability issues. The idea is confirmed by a case study on the implementation and sustainability evaluation of innovative cryogenic and high pressure jet assisted machining processes in comparison to conventional machining process.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132465359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond risk management assessing and managing program challenges","authors":"A. Shenhar, D. Dvir, J. Stefanovic","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261998","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional, well-established risk management techniques are not always working. The evidence is well-known: Two of the most important and much anticipated commercial airplane development programs have recently suffered embarrassing delays in execution and delivery schedules. Airbus and its parent company EADS had to push A380s entry into service by 19 to 24 months. And Boeing has announced that its 787 Dreamliners delivery to customers will be delayed by at least a year. Clearly, these delays have significant consequences for the two companies and for the transportation industry. There is no doubt that both Airbus and Boeing are quite familiar with risk management techniques. So what happened? How could such experienced and well-managed companies fail so painfully in their main lines of business aircraft building? In this presentation we show that although the traditional techniques of project planning and risk management form the basic and necessary foundation for training project managers, they are insufficient to deal effectively with todays dynamic, risky, and changing projects. Project managers of complex programs must go beyond the classical techniques. We present four myths in the traditional approach to project risk management and contrast them with the realities of modern project management. We suggest that the risk management framework should be expanded to assess, not just what can go wrong, but also how can we get it right and how long will it take. We will offer practical guidelines on how to make this work by assessing both the risk and the challenge in each project.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130856716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Number portability to internet phone: Consumer demand and welfare","authors":"Jung-Eun Ku, Sang-Woo Lee","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262260","url":null,"abstract":"Even though Internet phone service continues to evolve in terms of quality and competitive pricing compared with the public switched telephone network (PSTN), the number of Internet phone subscribers is still lower than what experts had forecasted for South Korea. Thus, in 2008, the Korean government decided to apply number portability to Internet phone service (IPS) to revitalize the market. In this study, we construct utilities of Internet phone number portability (INP) to analyze the need for INP in the Internet phone market and express its value in monetary terms to measure consumer welfare with a constructive contingent valuation approach based on the value-structuring capabilities of multi-attribute utility theory (MAUT). With this methodology, we investigate the willingness of 316 current PSTN subscribers in South Korea to pay for INP. We apply a specific survey method called “double-bounded dichotomous choices” (DBDC) to obtain accurate data. The results show that INP is the key attribute for expanding the IPS market, and the calculated value of INP positively impacts consumer welfare.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131008303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Overcoming technology uncertainty by scalable platform","authors":"Gen Shimada, K. Miyazaki","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262280","url":null,"abstract":"Under the recent volatile Consumer Electronics (CE) market, product development is becoming difficult. The most remarkable CE product in terms of Technology Uncertainty is Digital TV (DTV) as it has many features and still increasing. So, the paper focuses on DTV product, particularly its Electronics System Platform, as it plays a key role in the development. The authors found out that there are several types of Technology Uncertainty, depends on the product features, and classified them based on Courtney model. In the past, lots of researches were made in CE System platform. Among them, Scalable Platform is a new effective solution to develop wide range of product lines with short cycle. The research question is whether Scalable Platform also effective for the Technology Uncertainty. Thus, the objective is to investigate how Scalable Platform contributes to Technology Uncertainty. As a methodology, a number of interviews with DTV makers were conducted to gather the information in the development. Then comparative analysis was made among them to see the effectiveness of their solutions in terms of Technology Uncertainty. As a result of the investigation, Scalable platform is effective for a certain type of Technology Uncertainty in DTV development in the recent market environment.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130478617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Changing the rules of the game for future agriculture, The University Innovation Centre (UIC) model","authors":"B. Grieve, M. Bushell, M. Lant, L. Georghiou, K. Malik","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262238","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing demands placed on sustainable food, feed and fuel production from world population growth and climate change are driving the need for improved agricultural productivity from the limited fertile land-bank and natural resources. The open innovation concept offers opportunities to swiftly create novel products, services and techniques which can deliver a paradigm shift in farming practice and food supply management. To identify and realise these new agricultural approaches requires the integration of an in-depth understanding of future customer needs (potential market pull) alongside a knowledge of emerging technological possibilities arising from parallel industrial and non-agri research sectors (potential technology push). This paper describes a three year process undertaken by the science led agribusiness, Syngenta Plc, in partnership with the University of Manchester, UK, which has culminated in the University Innovation Centre (UIC) concept. This is exemplified through a case study based upon the first of these UICs, which addresses the introduction of Sensors and Informatics into agriculture (‘agri-electronics’). The paper covers the consolidation in the agri-industry which has laid the foundation for the UICs, the rationale for selecting agri-electronics as a strategic enabling technology, the mechanism applied for landscaping the business opportunities that it may offer across a 15 year horizon, the learning drawn from academic partnering models exploited by unrelated business sectors and the adaptation of these concepts into the current framework agreement between the university, company and other potential third parties.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127838842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining product champions as innovators","authors":"D. Wilemon","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262068","url":null,"abstract":"Champions of innovation often play a major role in facilitating entrepreneurial behavior within organizations. Without the influence and efforts of these entrepreneurial champions, many organizational initiatives would not be successful. Examples of organizational initiatives which are often influenced by champions include: new product development, new internal ventures, intrappreneurship, implementing a new information technology (IT) system, strategy creation & implementation, etc. Prior research, however, indicates that up to 70% of change initiatives fail (Higgs & Rowland, 2005). Howell and Higgins (1990) describe the role and importance of product champions this way: There is no shortage of creative idea in corporate America. However, for innovation to occur, someone must take the creative idea, guide it through the trying period when resistance hits a peak, and persevere until it becomes an innovation. In short, every idea needs a champion. The nationale of this paper is to understand more thoroughly the role of product champions in organizations and to identify what we know about several major areas considered important to product champion behavior. The areas we specifically focus on are the product champion's political, power, & process capabilities which can facilitate the evolvement of an innovation's performance. The study relies on an extensive literature review on product champions and what we've learned about their behavior. We then narrow our lens to what is known about the power, political, and process, and performance issues. A model is then developed that describes the potential relationships among these variables and performance. This study underscores the previous research findings that product champions use a mix of behaviors involving political, personal power capabilities, process issues, all of which influence innovation performance. The findings also suggest that in performing their role that too much influence, like too little influence, can adversely affect a project's potential for success. In addition, prior studies have noted that product champions use their web of influence both within and external to their organizations. Several managerial recommendations are advanced to improve product champion behaviors. Equally important, several research question are advanced for future study.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126707532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}