Management of technology : key success factors for innovation and sustainable development : selected papers from the twelfth International Conference on Management of Technology / edited by Laure Morel-Guimaraes, Tarek M. Khalil, Yasser A. Hosni.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Understanding the difference between information management and knowledge management / Jose Claudio Terra and Terezinha Angeloni -- 2. Firms' wireless application needs assessment in technology selection / Petteri Laaksonen, Hannu Karkkainen, Jouni Koivuniemi and Markku Tuominen -- 3. Proposal for an approach to preserve the decisions and alternative solutions on the design process / Armand Ngassa, Jean-Pierre Bourey and Michel Bigand -- 4. Emergence of Bangalore as global technology hub : high tech clustering in the context of culture, technology and knowledge structures / Anil Rawat -- 5. Sino-foreign joint ventures as exogamic partnerships / Dominique Jolly -- 6. Managing technology and knowledge across organisational interfaces / Clare Farrukh and David Probert -- 7. Investigating the enabling mechanisms for ensuring quality of communication in newly "virtualized" project teams / Marie-Claude Petit, Sicotte Helene and Mario Bourgault -- 8. Cognitive assets : a model to understand the organizational appropriation of collective tacit knowledge / Jorge Cataldo and Paulo Prochno -- 9. Does knowledge mean success? - capabilities, strategies and international performance of small knowledge-intensive firms / Olli Kuivalainen and A. Megdad -- 10. Assessment of the impact of intermediate agricultural processing technologies on a rural community in South Africa / Andre Buys and Victor Ndirika -- 11. A re-analysis of world competitiveness using IMD - science and technology / Fujio Niwa and Terutaka Kuwahara -- 12. Sustainable development and quality certification issues : competencies, knowledge and participation / Martine Revel -- 13. A proposal for considering sustainable development as a tool for companies to evaluate their future development scenarios / Matthieu Jacquot, Olivier Chery and Laure Morel-Guimaraes -- 14. Utilizable information sources of competitive technical intelligence in Japan / Yoshio Sugasawa and Noboru Sugino -- 15. Usage and ergonomics as common reference points for cooperation and innovation among disciplines / Thomas Valette, Benoit Roussel, Dominique Millet and Robert Duchamp -- 16. An approach for managing the integration of new product development process in biotech start-ups / Yuosre Badir, Remi Founou and Jean Philippe Deschamps -- 17. Analysis of the innovation process within Italian SMEs / Mario Coccia, Giuseppe Calabrese and Secondo Rolfo -- 18. Product development strategies for high-tech products in a growth market / Masaru Ishioka, Kazuhiko Yasuda and Kouichi Iwata -- 19. Establishing a practical company innovative benchmark / Emmanuel Maravelakis, Nicholas Bilalis, Keith Jones and Aristomenis Antoniadis -- 20. Information technology and organizational factors in customer service management : a multiple case study in Brazil / Marie Chauvel, Sinone Ferreira, Luiz F. Autran, M. Gomes, Renato R. Gregorio and Julio Cesar Miranda da Silva -- 21. ERP systems and organisational culture : exploring ERP-systems from life world perspectives / Kees Boersma and Sytze Kingma -- 22. Real options in technology incubators / Max von Zedtwitz and Karl Ruping -- 23. CRM, before technology, go back to basics! / Maurice Abi-Raad -- 24. Virtual collaborative implementation for simulation based acquisition / James Ragusa and Grace Bochenek -- 25. Effective methods for new product design process / Ozalp Vayvay and Levent Akdag -- 26. The dynamic role of innovation derivatives in technological innovation / WonJoon Kim and Jeong-Dong Lee -- 27. A model for the study of clustering : a case study from new media firms Vancouver / Richard Smith -- 28. An approach to evaluate the quality of a product when multiple quality characteristics are considered / Weng Meng Chan and Raafat Ibrahim.

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