PICMET Newsletter - Summer 2003 

                                                         
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 PICMET'04 Symposium in Korea

In response to an increasing number of requests from our colleagues from around
the world for the expansion of PICMET (Portland International Conference
on Management of Engineering and Technology) beyond the biennial
Portland conference, the PICMET Board of Directors has decided to take several
initiatives that we are implementing now.

One of these initiatives is the addition of a non-Portland location for a PICMET
Symposium in the even numbered years.

I am pleased to announce that PICMET'04 Symposium will be held on August 1-4,
2004 in Seoul, Korea. STEPI (Science and Technology Policy Institute) is the
co-host of PICMET'04.

The theme of PICMET'04 is Innovation Management in the Technology-Driven World.
The critical issues in managing technological innovations will be addressed by
workshops, plenaries, research papers, applications papers, panel discussions
and tutorials.

Deadline for abstracts (up to 200-words long) is January 1, 2004. Submissions
can be made at www.picmet.org.

The venue is the Ritz Carlton Hotel in the bustling new and modern section of
Seoul. The participants will enjoy the world-renown Ritz hospitality.

We are expecting top quality presentations in a dynamic environment for plenty
of networking opportunities in the PICMET tradition. Being at the center of an
exciting region of the world with technological advances and innovations taking
place in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, India and the Southeast
Asian countries among others, PICMET'04 will be an intellectually invigorating
 forum for leading researchers, educators, industry representatives and government
officials to discuss technology management.

I hope you can join us at PICMET'04. Please visit the PICMET page at www.picmet.org
for additional information and for submission of papers.

We hope to see you at PICMET'04 in Seoul on August 1-4, 2004.

Dundar F. Kocaoglu
CEO and President of PICMET