{"title":"Technology-based business incubation: A study of the differences and similarities between private, university, and government incubation","authors":"C. Hallam, Natalia Dévora","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261957","url":null,"abstract":"A study of technology-based business incubation was conducted to investigate and contrast the differences and similarities between private, university, and government incubation. Sample operating models from existing universities are explored demonstrating the various permutations and combinations of operating philosophies. The operating models are reviewed in light of their broader fit within the realm of technology entrepreneurship, commercialization, and management in the United States. Using these results, a 9-step checklist for creating an incubator is promulgated with the intention of being used at each stage of incubator development, including the feasibility study stage, the launch stage, and the maintenance, operation, and improvement stage.. Finally, a series of recommendations are made for establishing a technology-based incubation program in the Canary Islands in response to their desire to move the region from a purely tourism-based economy to a more diverse economic make-up that includes technology-based business incubation spinning off from Canary Island universities.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"270 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":"127745420","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":"Planning and identification of marketable technology from the research area","authors":"F. Aldape","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262074","url":null,"abstract":"Many research institutes in the world have experienced the commercialization of their developed technologies. Approaches and contexts vary from place to place depending on their technological level and type, the kind of institute and especially depending on the long-term goals they pursue. This presentation expresses the importance of the technology marketing process in research and development institutes, the identification of success factors, strategies & variables, as a case study presents an analysis of the technology commercialization experience at the Electrical Research Institute (Mexico).","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"79 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":"134322448","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":"Toward an understanding of the dynamic of project manager assignments: An empirical study","authors":"P. Patanakul","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262021","url":null,"abstract":"Project manager assignment is an important decision management has to make since a project manager is known as one of the key project success factors. Despite the importance of the decision, research on project manager assignment is very limited. The objective of this study is to empirically investigate the project manager assignment. In particular, it examines the impact of the approaches used in the assignment on the project management effectiveness of an organization. The results of this study reveal the ways management should assign projects to their project managers such that the assignments enhance the resource productivity, organization learning, project success (time, cost, customer satisfaction, and business success), and personal satisfaction (career advancement, reward for performance, and personal learning).","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"7 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":"134638863","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":"Technology make-or-buy decisions in the german industry: Criteria, methods and organization","authors":"Daniel Gerhard, K. Voigt","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262137","url":null,"abstract":"Because of limited resources and inherent risks, companies tend to develop not all technologies by themselves. There are alternatives to internal development i.e. company acquisition or contract development. To have a decision basis for one of these alternatives it is necessary to evaluate those in the context of the company. The decision about internal or external acquisition of technologies is part of the technology strategy which is closely connected to the firm's competitive and market entry strategy. Our study addresses the connection between the technology acquisition decision and the company's technological market entry and competitive strategy. The quantitative explanatory study in the German industry shows that there are some notable differences between companies with cost leadership and differentiation strategy. Differentiators more often used joint research and patent or technology purchasing and involve more often the legal department in the decision process. Pioneers, compared to followers, involve more internal stakeholders in the decision process, e.g. corporate management, R&D and the legal department. Furthermore, they tend to source technology externally more often using joint research approaches.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"15 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":"125227777","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 changing shape of networks: Lessons for the auto industry","authors":"T. Ben-Zvi","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261757","url":null,"abstract":"The global financial crisis has hit carmakers relatively hard as the auto industry around the world is experiencing a sharp decrease in sales. Today, carmakers must consider their strategic positioning in the market, relative to the competition. One way to deepen understanding of corporate positioning from this perspective is to investigate this area using a laboratory experiment. This study examines a business simulation game and evaluates several network characteristics. Our analysis reveals the impact those characteristics have on company performance. The findings also show the applicability of network theory in analyzing the auto industry.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"28 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":"131978775","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":"Towards effective technology policies in Latin America","authors":"Tatiana Láscaris Comneno","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262235","url":null,"abstract":"Application of technology is today — of all possible factors — the most determinant of the productivity that a workforce can achieve. In addition to its impressive contribution to economic growth, technological progress presents potential contributions, equally significant, to social cohesion and access to opportunities. In the 1950s and 1960s the forecast for the development of a Latin America endowed with good natural and human resources, in comparison with other zones of the planet, was very favorable. However, time went on, and Latin America deepened its contradictions between the potentialities of development and its socioeconomic asymmetries; social inequality hits 40% of the population with poverty. This paper seeks to contribute to the discussion of some factors that have deteriorated our social capital — pointed out by international experiences as the key for success in reaching a competitive development based on its own resources-, and have undermined the legitimacy and implementation of certain public policies; among them, those somehow link scientific and technological development with economic development. To reach solidarity and a sustainable and inclusive human development requires being clear about your goals, about the resources that are available, about what has been reached at present, and also about the weaknesses and circumstances that, in a society, are detrimental to the human development that is aspired.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"49 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":"132033222","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":"Improving the oil & gas industry innovation with a strategic fuel: Distributed research and development","authors":"Clarissa Pires, L. Urbina","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261976","url":null,"abstract":"The Brazilian Oil & Gas (O&G) industry has increased significantly for the last years, especially during the process of breaking the state monopoly, in 1997. The industry impacts directly on national economy, its contribution to GDP grew more than three times since 1998, when it was almost 3%, and in 2007 the rate increased to about 11% of GDP. Energy integration with neighboring countries such as Argentina, Bolivia or Venezuela also contributes to value this sector. The importance and great opportunities of the O&G sector force its companies to pursue new technologies aiming at efficiency and flexibility, and then become more competitive. In Brazil, this type of innovation process occurs mostly through university-industry cooperation, however the gap between university and industry is still huge. This paper presents a method for coordination distributed R&D projects for a big O&G Company, using the concepts of collaborative partnerships, open innovation and distributed research and development strategy. The method is illustrated by a case study.","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":"115939093","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":"Literature review on technology transfer from government laboratories to industry","authors":"T. Tran, D. Kocaoglu","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261800","url":null,"abstract":"Technology transfer is a broad field that ranges from internal corporate technology transfer to international technology transfer. While technology transfer among corporates, between universities and companies, have been well documented, however, technology transfer from government owned R&D institutions to private sector has not. Governments throughout the world are spending more and more national budget in R&D with the goal to enhance national competitiveness and develop their economies. With increasing global competition governments in both developed and developing countries accentuate more on public R&D investments. Nevertheless the question of how to translate these enormous public spendings to the achievement of the country's economic goals is still not answered adequately and thus requires more investigation. A thorough review of the literature is the first step needed to gain an overall picture of the research done in this field. It also helps highlight much of the research gaps that remained to be fulfilled by future work.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"32 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":"131888827","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":"Incentive policies to address climate change in China","authors":"Jun-Na Jin, Ying-Qiu Dong","doi":"10.1142/S0219877012500319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219877012500319","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change has become one of the most serious problems faced by all countries. Like other countries, China has launched a set of policies and activities to reduce the impact of climate change in the development of economics and society. This paper reviews the policies in China to encourage the environmental beneficial and energy-saving innovation, such as the environmental policies, the environmental tax in future. Based on archival analyses, the policies are reviewed from some aspects, for instance, the national plan, and the S&T actions. It is a system of low-carbon innovation policies in China to build a low-carbon country. In addition, the development of new energy vehicle industry is taken as a case to illustrate the implementation of incentives for climate change. Recommendations to the policies upgrading and implication are proposed at the end of paper.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"151 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":"132232576","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}
Songphon Munkongsujarit, Willi Schweinfort, Ibrahim Iskin, Rafael Colón, Napong Tanatammatorn, Nuancharas Phopoonsak, Abdulrhman Almobarak
{"title":"Decision model for a place to live at PSU: The case of international graduate students","authors":"Songphon Munkongsujarit, Willi Schweinfort, Ibrahim Iskin, Rafael Colón, Napong Tanatammatorn, Nuancharas Phopoonsak, Abdulrhman Almobarak","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262104","url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates the use of decision models for the selection of a place to live for a new student who just came to Portland State University (PSU.) A hierarchical decision model (HDM) was selected as the tool and a model was constructed to meet the objective of selecting the best place to live. Cost, convenience, and safety were identified as the three goals in support of the objective. The criteria and sub-criteria were listed with respect to each goal. The alternatives were chosen for both on-campus and off-campus housings. The experts were selected from a group of international graduate students to quantify judgments based on the HDM model. Finally, utility values were used to compare the characteristics of the alternatives. The alternative with the highest score was identified as the best alternative.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"49 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":"133312534","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}