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Identifying student retention patterns using GIS technology 利用地理信息系统技术识别学生保留模式

PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology Pub Date : 2009-09-25 DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261844

Cheryl Hanewicz

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引用次数: 6

The case of municipal policy enhancing SMEs through an environmental approach 市政政策通过环保方法促进中小企业发展的案例

PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology Pub Date : 2009-09-25 DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261878

N. Odake

{"title":"The case of municipal policy enhancing SMEs through an environmental approach","authors":"N. Odake","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261878","url":null,"abstract":"As interest in the impacts of business activities on the environment has grown, environmental policy is now shifting from the end of pipe stage to the next stage. In the environmental departments of municipal governments in Austria, an increasing number of cases is observed where the department has outgrown its restriction-based environmental measures. The program aims to reduce environmental burdens, not through forcing SMEs to follow governments' measures, but rather through supporting SMEs' own efforts to decrease the burdens. This can be categorized as a diffusion-oriented policy. The goal of this paper is to extract the conveyed meanings of partnerships and the role that public sectors through the activities of local authorities or intermediaries need to play in fostering environmental conservation. The focus of discussion is on the partnerships among the parties involved in the program and on the program operation. The program is composed of various elements such as the legal system and control, financial methods, the consulting system, multifaceted partnerships and so forth. This comprehensive program, which is appropriate for local areas, can be a model of community-empowering policy in an attempt for local governments to implement bottom-up type measures for boosting local industries.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"13 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":"121281687","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}

引用次数: 1

Who has ‘the right stuff’? human capital, entrepreneurship and institutional change in China 谁有“合适的东西”?中国的人力资本、企业家精神和制度变迁

PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology Pub Date : 2009-09-25 DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261928

Charles E. Eesley

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引用次数: 17

E-business adoption in Iranian small and medium enterprises: Analyzing and prioritizing the extra-organizational factors 伊朗中小企业采用电子商务:分析并优先考虑组织外因素

PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology Pub Date : 2009-09-25 DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261946

M. K. Sameni, F. Khoshalhan

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引用次数: 10

Models and metrics for the technology transfer process from federal labs to application and the market 从联邦实验室到应用和市场的技术转移过程的模型和指标

PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology Pub Date : 2009-09-25 DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261799

A. Rubenstein

{"title":"Models and metrics for the technology transfer process from federal labs to application and the market","authors":"A. Rubenstein","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261799","url":null,"abstract":"The author and his colleagues have worked with over a dozen federal agencies (as well as many industrial firms) on the process of getting new technology out of their labs and into their own innovation programs and/or into the broader markets of industry and other agencies. The focus of this paper is on metrics and flow models for the outputs, at each stage of the process, and the barriers and facilitators that impede or enhance the flow. It deals with the notorious “Valley of Death” that slows or sinks the flow of items of technology at various stages of the R&D/Innovation (R&D/I) process. It suggests a systematic methodology for identifying and measuring the impacts, outputs, barriers, and facilitators encountered in the flow. Criteria trees are suggested for connecting stage outputs to the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) of the operating units, parent organizations, and other sponsors and clients served by the labs. Some examples of common barriers and facilitators are given, including: the over-focus of many Tech Transfer Offices on “paper” Intellectual Property (IP), such as patents and licenses vs. “real” outputs and impacts such as new products and applications of technology that are transferred to and adopted by the various types of potential users of the technology. Specific examples are also drawn from studies by the author and his colleagues in the fields of: aerospace and automotive research; agriculture; transportation; healthcare; military R&D; and environment, energy, and materials R&D.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"20 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":"115002752","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}

引用次数: 0

Developing a framework for mapping industrial emergence 制定产业崛起地图框架

PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology Pub Date : 2009-09-25 DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262204

R. Phaal, E. O’Sullivan, C. Farrukh, D. Probert

引用次数: 10

A challenge for service concept modeling by the Innovation Support Technology (IST) 创新支持技术(IST)对服务概念建模的挑战

PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology Pub Date : 2009-09-25 DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262046

H. Abe, M. Ibaragi, M. Mitsuoka, Junji Nagata, F. Jinno, Y. Igarashi, Gaston Trauffler

引用次数: 2

Key entrepreneurial traits and their relationship to venture uncertainty and venture success 关键创业特征及其与风险不确定性和风险成功的关系

PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology Pub Date : 2009-09-25 DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261951

D. Dvir, A. Sadeh, A. Pines, A. Shenhar

{"title":"Key entrepreneurial traits and their relationship to venture uncertainty and venture success","authors":"D. Dvir, A. Sadeh, A. Pines, A. Shenhar","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261951","url":null,"abstract":"While entrepreneurship is one of the most studied topics in business research, findings have been mixed regarding the traits of entrepreneurs. Some of the confusion in the literature may be explained by findings such as John Miner's who identified four personality types capable of achieving entrepreneurial success [33]. Indeed, several authors differentiated between different entrepreneurial subgroups. However, almost all writers assumed that entrepreneurs have distinct personality traits. Among the traits mentioned most often were: high need for achievement, need for control, autonomy, independence, self-confidence, initiative, optimism, imagination, persistence, leadership, competitiveness and risk taking. Against all this body of research comes the claim that the entrepreneurial personality is nothing but a myth [48]. The current study is the fourth in a series of studies on Israeli entrepreneurs that explored their personal traits, from a macro cross-cultural and cultural perspective, through a mezzo occupational perspective to a micro individual behavioral perspective. This study, coming from a micro individual perspective, examined the correlates of the set of personal traits portraying Israeli entrepreneurs found in our previous research. It showed a. that entrepreneurial traits such as love of challenge, initiative, optimism, creativity and energy are highly correlated with risk-taking propensity; b. that this set of traits are also correlated with higher level of venture uncertainty in terms of market and technological uncertainty, and c. ventures with higher levels of uncertainty and risk create higher opportunities for future activities such as entering new markets and introducing new product lines, but are less efficient in terms of meeting schedule and budget goals.","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":"121545803","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}

引用次数: 2

Decision making tools in feasibility analysis of national R&D programs 国家研发项目可行性分析中的决策工具

PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology Pub Date : 2009-09-25 DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261813

Yoon Been Lee, JiYoung Park

引用次数: 2

The role for the government in information technology: The case of Iran 政府在信息技术中的角色:以伊朗为例

PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology Pub Date : 2009-09-25 DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262277

A. Akhavan, N. Jabbari

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引用次数: 0