Archive for August, 2006

Collaborative Technologies Conference

The Collaborative Technologies Conference (CTC) has explored the breadth of collaborative solutions, including real-time and asynchronous technologies, from both strategic and tactical perspectives. CTC was focused on the tools and techniques that best leverage the technical, productive and social aspects of IT and workgroup environments to build a cohesive collaboration strategy and empower a connected workforce. Continue reading…

The business model of municipal WiFi Networks

In this latest article that is presented in TechNewsWorld by Paul Korzeniowski main implementation reasons and key success factors of municipal WiFi Networks are presented. In his article is arguing that throughout the world — municipalities are adding broadband WiFi to their list of services for different reasons and definitely through different financial means. Continue reading…

Intellectual Capital for Communities: Nations, regions, and cities

In this book, editors Ahmed Bounfour (University of Paris XI, France) and Leif Edivinsson (University of Lund, Sweden) have brought together twenty two contributions on intellectual capital. The papers focus on measuring and managing the intellectual capital of communities, cities, regions, and nations. Continue reading…

Pictures of the Future

With its “Pictures of the Future” approach, Siemens takes a long look into the future: 10, 20 or even 30 years, depending upon the area of activity. The goal is to identify promising technologies and future consumer wishes and to discover new business possibilities. The result is a coherent vision of tomorrow’s world. Continue reading…

Global Innovation Clusters

The Innovaro Technology Watch programme highlights key sources of new technology and identifies leading innovation clusters and companies all around the world. Continue reading…

Measuring Innovation 2006

72% of companies worldwide will increase spending on innovation in 2006, and 41 percent will increase spending significantly, according to a recent survey of senior management conducted by The Boston Consulting Group. Continue reading…

Science Parks Assessment

In this paper, Bigliardi et al. attempt to address the very common problem of evaluating the performance of Science and Technology Parks as well as other technology transfer organisations. Their analyses points to the critical role of the specific context (environment) were the park is located and operates Continue reading…