Conveners
R&D Management: Session 1
- YOON BEEN LEE (KIC-Europe)
R&D Management: Session 2
- Takao Fujiwara (Toyohashi University of Technology)
R&D Management: Session 3
- Roswitha Wiedenhofer (FH JOANNEUM, University of Applied Sciences Graz)
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Mr Rico Cho (Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology)15/05/2017, 10:30R&D ManagementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Standard-essential patents (SEPs) refer to officially recognized patents for an industrial standard. SEPs are crucial nevertheless not all important patents related to a standard are listed as its SEPs. In this paper, we propose a method to identify potential valuable patents which are missing from a standardโs SEP list. The method begins with expanding the scope of SEPs through a...Go to contribution page
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Ms JINGWEN FU (Harbin Engineering University)15/05/2017, 10:52R&D ManagementPresentation only (Category B)Although R&D and production are both indispensable in firmsโฒ innovation activities, existing studies on innovation performance always consider the two processes separately when trying to find out factors that determine firmsโฒ innovation performance. Considering only one process makes it hard to figure out which is more important for firmsโฒ innovation performance. To compensate the...Go to contribution page
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Ms Xiaojun Yang (Harbin Engineering University)15/05/2017, 11:14R&D ManagementPresentation only (Category B)Innovation and technological progress are deemed basic determinants of regional economic growth. Industry-university research synergy innovation is considered to be an important strategy of regional development and economic growth in China. Enterprises, universities and scientific research institutions enhance their independent Research & Development (R&D) ability, at the same time the...Go to contribution page
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Dr YOON BEEN LEE (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Evaluation and Planning)15/05/2017, 11:36R&D ManagementPresentation only (Category B)In Korea, not only government but also private sector continues to increase investment in R&D, and then Facilities, apparatus, and human resources reached higher position comparing decade ago. The investment has been mentioned as a primary factor in nurturing companies, heightening national competitiveness, and securing sustainable development. The government has made efforts to establish...Go to contribution page
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Mr Kwete Mwana Nyandongo (University of Johannesburg), Ms Maralise Davids (The University of Johannesburg)15/05/2017, 13:30Project and program managementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The role of communication in project management has been intensively debated for decades. It has been investigated from various perspectives and has enjoyed a substantial coverage in project management literature. Communication has been identified as key to success and poor communication as the reason for many project failures. While some researchers have considered communication as just a...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marta Lucia Tostes Vieira (PUCP)15/05/2017, 13:52R&D ManagementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Perez (2010) claims that the future development strategies of countries of Latin American region should contemplate changes associated with the massive application of advanced biology, to the sustainable transformation of renewable resources. The UNCTAD in the Report on Policy Review in Science, Technology and Innovation for Peru (UN, 2011) recounts the importance of the application of...Go to contribution page
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Mr Bonginkosi Ngqulunga (University of Pretoria, PhD Candidate)15/05/2017, 14:14R&D ManagementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Changes in the external and internal business environment may induce a redirection of company strategy, which can result in the destruction of a companyโs valuable intellectual assets (people and knowledge), generated through formal R&D investment. These intellectual assets may be of value to both the company and society, and their termination of projects as a consequence of the re-shaping of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Takao Fujiwara (Toyohashi University of Technology)15/05/2017, 14:36R&D ManagementPresentation only (Category B)NASDAQ Biotechnology Index (NBI) has been more steady than Dow Jones Industrial Average. And digital technology is promoting democratic innovation. Start-ups are more excellent in speed, cost, and flexible management than large market-oriented pharmaceutical companies to integrate the innovative technology with the niche market. However, most start-ups are in negative profits except dozens...Go to contribution page
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Mr Asghar Jabalbarezisarbijan (Qeshm Voltage)15/05/2017, 15:30R&D ManagementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Nowadays all companies around the word are considering about their costs in different parts. They are searching for different ways to decrease their overhead costs. So most of the big companies moved their product lines to some countries such as China, Bangladesh, Vietnam and India to access to the cheaper employee (manpower). One of the important and high cost parts in the companies is...Go to contribution page
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Dr mehrdad Heidari orejloo (the director of applied research department (KWPA))15/05/2017, 15:52R&D ManagementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)This article has been deduced from the results of research activities of Khuzestan Water and Power Authority Company (KWPA). The first issue is the non-functionality of many research projects being done in KWPA during these twenty years. Given that this company has always had the first rank among the subsidiary companies of Energy ministry from the perspective of research analysis, the above...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Maged S Morcos (The British University in Egypt (BUE))15/05/2017, 16:14Project and program managementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)There are a lot of reasons that contribute to the failure of projects and their systems. Among those reasons, one that is very significant to project failure is the lack of project managers to view the project as one whole system that need to be studied for its reliability. In this recommended reliability study, not only physical resources are considered in the analysis but the human...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Maged S Morcos (The British University in Egypt (BUE))15/05/2017, 16:36Safety and risk managementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Managers of organisations are often faced with non-structured problems which involve quite a lot of uncertainties in their process. The reason is that organisations have not been recognised as dynamic and open and the stochastic nature of their complex systems is not fully appreciated. Hence, there is ample need for developing a tool that applies reliability techniques that are normally used...Go to contribution page