Browsing by Subject "research and development"

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Doing Business with a High-Tech Focus in Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
(IC² Institute, 1999-06) Cong, Dachang
Introduces the economic conditions and high-tech research and development scenarios in post-crisis Asia. Explores challenges and opportunities for American high tech industries. Discusses issues related to doing business with the Japanese and Chinese, including understanding management and the need for better cross-cultural training.
Facilitation of Science and Engineering Collaboration and Technology Transfer
(1998) Laubach, Stephen E. (Stephen Ernest), 1955-
Key to the success of research projects involving collaboration across disciplinary, organizational, and geographic boundaries is the use of appropriate and effective mechanisms to exchange data and analyses among research team members. Where diverse university-based research groups are also sharing data and results with industry and government collaborators and sponsors, timely and appropriate information transfer to these entities is also important to project success. Despite rapid evolution of electronic communication technologies, this data sharing and data analysis sharing function is commonly less successful than many stakeholders desire, and less effective than current technology allows. By taking advantage of a secure, interactive website environment, geoscientists, engineers, and others can communicate and share a variety of information resources effectively and conveniently. This results in closer collaboration, faster progress, lower costs, and more effective technology transfer to the private sector. However, the traditional Internet Web site, Intranet, and Extranet approaches are not solutions to many of the challenges of diverse, collaborative research teams. This report outlines the solution to this challenge developed in our project. The project "Using Microstructure Observations To Qualify Fracture Properties and Improve Reservoir Simulation" involves multidisciplinary studies of natural fractures in hydrocarbon reservoirs by a research team of geologists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin that is dispersed among different buildings and two different campuses. In addition, a collaborating group of industry scientists representing seven companies includes individuals located in different cities (or continents). Successful cooperative research and technology transfer for such a widely distributed group is a serious logistical and organizational challenge.
Generational Road Maps: Political, Economic, Scientific?
(IC² Institute, 1996-05-24) Kozmetsky, George
In a commencement address to the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, describes the current lack of clear-cut generally acceptable road maps, formal or informal, for dealing with societal challenges and opportunities. Argues that audience members should, at an appropriate time, prepare themselves to accept the leadership for change and embrace the responsibility to develop their generational road map. Discusses the need for stronger linkages between academia, business and government and argues that efforts, newer institutions and mechanisms must be put in place that mitigate and solve urban, suburban and regional problems in parallel with each other. Describes five unprecedented opportunities for the scientific literates in the audience to reshape and restructure R&D and the economic infrastructure. Argues that these changes require audience members to develop and understanding of how public policy will be set in the future, acquire skills, become more multidisciplinary and understand how to commercialize science and technology.
A Glance at the Recent Additive Manufacturing Research and Development in China
(University of Texas at Austin, 2015) Xing, Xiaodong; Yang, Li
This paper reviews some of the recent additive manufacturing research and development works in China. A considerable amount of AM research activities in China focuses on directed energy deposition processes, powder bed fusion processes and stereolithography, with much of the effect dedicated to system and application development. Although many of the recent results are not readily available from the literatures published in China, from the available information the areas of focus for research and development could be clearly seen. Despite some speculations, the AM research in China is vibrate and aggressive, with some areas at least several years ahead of the other countries.
Japanese Entrepreneurship and Opportunities for Partnering
(IC² Institute, 1999-06-29) Nishiyama, Hidehiko
As part of the Japan Industry and Management of Technology (JIMT) Speaker Series, discusses the importance of entrepreneurship and new technologies in securing Japan’s full economic recovery from the current economic slump. Describes the history of Japanese entrepreneurship, which experienced a golden age after WWII, and how the rise of large corporations led to less risk-taking, effectively stifling venture firms chances for success in the market. Discusses new government programs aimed at fostering venture firm growth and changes required in education, banking, mergers and acquisitions, the bankruptcy system and regional competition to support entrepreneurship. Describes current trends in small business and venture firms and the possibility for partnering with U.S. firms in collaborative research.
Japan’s Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Initiative and the Politics of International Technology Collaboration
(IC² Institute, 1997-04) Corning, Gregory P.
Discusses Japan’s Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) initiative, an international research program in manufacturing technology with the goal of developing a next-generation production system to maximize efficiency by integrating the entire range of business activity from order-booking through design, manufacture and distribution. Examines the role of techno-nationalism, foreign pressure, and scientific and technical factors in motivating Japan’s original IMS proposal. Examines the framework of the IMS program emerging from negotiations between Japan, the U.S. and the European Union. Examines the experience of Japanese and foreign firms in IMS. Evaluates IMS as a potential model for large-scale, industrial R&D collaboration. Argues that future interest in the model will be determined by whether it generates sufficient research results over the next ten years that firms can justify the overhead of organizing research collaboration on a global scale.
The Knowledge Seekers: Creating Centers for the Performing Sciences
(IC² Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998) Porter, W. Arthur
The author argues that a new type of institution, a "Center for the Performing Sciences," is necessary to efficiently close the gap between research and the application of innovation. Such a center would operate as a public-private partnership, bridging government, industry, and academia. It would be free of some of the competing priorities of academic institutions, serve as a venue for R&D cooperation or "coopetition" among private companies, and ultimately be self-sustaining from a share of the intellectual property it produced. The author's points are illustrated with examples from the Houston Area Research Center (HARC), where he served as President and CEO.
The Knowledge Seekers: How to Turn Your Community into an Engine for Economic Success
(IC² Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001) Porter, W. Arthur
The author argues that a new type of institution, a "Center for the Performing Sciences," is necessary to efficiently close the gap between research and the application of innovation. Such a center would operate as a public-private partnership, bridging government, industry, and academia. It would be free of some of the competing priorities of academic institutions, serve as a venue for R&D cooperation or "coopetition" among private companies, and ultimately be self-sustaining from a share of the intellectual property it produced. The author's points are illustrated with examples from the Houston Area Research Center (HARC), where he served as President and CEO, and subsequent work at the University of Oklahoma. This 2001 edition is a substantial revision and expansion of the 1998 book of the same title.
On the Role of the University in the Knowledge Economy
(IC² Institute, 1998-02) Conceição, Pedro; Heitor, Manuel V.
Argues for changes in the traditional way of viewing economic growth and questions the role that contemporary institutions, specifically universities, play in this process. Shows, empirically, the increasing importance that knowledge is assuming in economic activity in developed countries. Outlines a new conceptual approach to economic growth, in which the accumulation of knowledge acts as the fundamental driving force. Describes new economic growth theories, laying out principal concepts relevant to an analysis of the present-day role of the universities. Examines the role of the university in the context of knowledge-based economies. Concludes that while the role of the university is of renewed importance, its institutional integrity must be preserved through a strengthening of its ability to create and disseminate knowledge.
Opening Address to The Second World Conference on Integrated Design & Process Technology of the Society for Design & Process Science (SDPS)
(IC² Institute, 1996-12-01) Kozmetsky, George
Discusses generational road maps and commercialization of science and technology. Describes the current lack of clear-cut generally acceptable road maps, formal or informal, and the changes facing all five basic dimensions of society – economic, political, social, cultural and scientific/technological. Argues for the development of stronger linkages between academia, business and government as well as the placement of new institutions and mechanisms that mitigate and solve urban, suburban and regional problems in parallel with each other. Explains the need for SDPS to, at an appropriate time, accept the leadership for change and to embrace the responsibility to develop its generational road map that sets forth opportunities to commercialize our scientific and technological breakthroughs as well as their timing. Describes five unprecedented opportunities for SDPS members to reshape and restructure R&D and its subsequent commercialization.
Synergy for the 21st Century: Between Unstructured Problems and Management Planning Controls
(IC² Institute, 1997-10-27) Kozmetsky, George
In the plenary address to the INFORMS Dallas Fall 2007 conference for Operations Research and Management Sciences (OR/MS), discusses the synergy between OR/MS and digital technology. Describes historically and prospectively the synergy between OR/MS and new disciplines as well as other emerging societies, synergy between OR/MS and the technology chain and the issues and initiatives that are key to developing leadership for the 21st century, including the need for digital/knowledge management and the need to develop tomorrow’s required talent.
Technology Transfer: A Report on Project Development
(Center for Research on Communication Technology & Society, The University of Texas at Austin, 1988-11) Williams, Frederick; Gibson, David V.; Sawhney, Harmeet S.
The purpose of this document is to describe and to propose research into the process of technology transfer between universities and industry. When examined as a process, technology transfer refers to the effective exchange of technical information among scientists and engineers as individuals, groups, or representatives of institutions or companies. In high tech, R&D technology transfer is more often the exchange of ideas, research findings, or critical information than simply a product transfer. In university-industry cooperation, technology transfer is a two-way or interactive communication process. In studying this process, we seek to identify the factors, circumstances, and actions that facilitate or impede this transfer. We especially seek generalizations that increase our basic understanding and that can be tested in alternative environments and situations.