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| T-Plan:
Fast Start Technology Roadmapping |
| T-Plan was developed by
Cambridge researchers after surveying the roadmapping practices at
2,000 UK manufacturing firms. More
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Knowledge
Diversity in the Nano-Era |
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Over the past 40 years,
humankind’s capacity to store, process and manage information has
increased at a staggering, yet relatively predictable pace.
In one way or another, progress in the information age has
been tied to ‘Moore’s Law’, which states that the
number of devices on integrated circuits (or silicon chips) tends to
quadruple about every three years More |
| Nanotechnology
: It is small, but will create next big industry |
The U.S. government showed
dedication to growth of the new nanotech industry. Nanotechnology is
the manipulation of materials at the atomic scale. The National
Science Foundation has estimated that nanotechnology applications
may be worth more than $1 trillion in the global economy in little
more than a decade. President Bush signed legislation in
December 3, 2003 to fund nanotechnology research and development for
four years starting next Oct. 1. More
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World
Economic Forum Names Technology Pioneers for 2004 |
| The World
Economic Forum announced the 30 companies
selected worldwide as "Technology Pioneers" for
2004. Company nominations
are made by the international venture community and
members, constituents and collaborators of the World Economic
Forum. More |
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| Growth
of Biotech Industry in Oregon |
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Bioscience industry in Oregon is still small and growing
incrementally.
Oregon's commercial
bioscience sector includes 185 companies in the following
industries: medical devices, chemicals and reagents, human
therapeutics (drug discovery and development), life
sciences-oriented information technology, in vitro diagnostics,
agriculture and food, and environment and waste. More |
| Three
Main Reasons Why India is Leading the World Software Market
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There
are some facts that make India very interesting to study. In one
side, India is considered today as the second largest country in
population in the world, a country with the highest number of
unemployment’s people, a country with more than 400
million people living with less than US$1 per day, a country with
36% of the poor people in the world, and 20% of the world’s
out-of-school children. However, at the same time India has
been focus of study from many developed and developing countries for
their rapid growing and leading position in the software field
around the world. More |
| Microsoft
Fights in the MATRIX Movie : Linux Versus Microsoft |
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Brazil, China
and India decided to go with Linux
The war of the
operating systems between Microsoft Windows and Linux is a contest
between proprietary software and free software.
Actually Linux is spreading at the grass roots level. It’s
interesting to note that both China and India and Brazil governments
are supporting Linux. I
watched Microsoft’s
version of the Matrix parodgy at the 2003 Comdex as part of Bill
Gate’s keynote. It
was really interesting. More
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| Nanogen's
New Patent Boosts the Competion in Biochip
Industry |
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The new Nanogen patent
describes a unique electric field 'pick and place' process that
facilitates the bringing together or integration of diverse DNA
nanocomponents, thereby helping solve difficult scaling issues. More |
| Petersburg
Prized Offered to ICT Innovators |
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The Petersberg Prize will
recognize the most exemplary contribution in the field of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for development
during the last ten years. The awardee will receive the €100,000
Prize. Nominations are due by February 1, 2004.More
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| Linking strategy to project management through project manager
assignments
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| Recent
research in project management discipline emphasis on establishing a
linkage between organizational strategy and project management. The
reason is several organizations use projects as vehicles to a
business success. Managing
a project to its success is therefore very important.
Organizations have to assure that project management,
starting from project selection to project dissemination, is inline
with the organizational strategy. More |
| Technology
Foresight: An opportunity for developing countries
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A
country is a complex system constitutes by a set of elements
connected by multiple and non-linear relationships. Technology
foresight, commonly defined as a systematic process to identify
critical technologies [UNIDO, 1999] [Foren, 2001] that will allow countries to growth
consistently and reach the aims goals, has been growing in
importance during the last two decades.
More |
| World
Best Technologies -WBT- 2004 |
The
WBT is produced in cooperation with
the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) and
the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF). The FLC
represents over 700 federally funded research centers and laboratories
throughout the U.S. The NASVF is a national organization of public
agencies, private investors, and public/private partnerships serving those
who invest in America's entrepreneurs. More
| China
Draws on Global Wisdom in Sci-tech Planning |
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that China is
open to the advice of overseas experts in the process of drafting a medium
and long-term plan for the advancing of science and technology. Wen
said China adopts an open approach in drafting a plan that is oriented to
the world and the future. Wen made the remarks in a meeting with overseas
experts attending a forum on science and technology development planning
for the coming two decades in Beijing. More
| Taiwan
Hsinchu
Science-Based Industrial Park (HSIP) |
| Established
in 1980, the Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park has been at the
center of Taiwan's high-tech industrial development in recent years.
More |
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Portland
State University
Engineering and Technology Management Department is conducted a world
wide research study on education and research in Engineering and
Technology Management. More
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