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In this modern era, saving energy ought to become a major concern and responsibility of everyone on this global warming world. All should consume energy as wisely as possible. Nonetheless, an enormous deal of energy (around 5–10% of total household energy consumption) is still being wasted nearly everywhere with and without consumers' awareness over the standby power drawn by various appliances when...
We recently used money from a National Science Foundation grant to install additional monitoring and sensing equipment in the engineering building at our educational institution. This allows students access to various types of data used in the operation of the building. They now use the actual building as a Living Laboratory for thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and Heating, Ventilation, & Air-Conditioning...
The aim of this paper is to conduct an in-depth study on how to reduce energy consumption in China. The main objective of this case study includes finding out problems of energy audit and energy management in Jilin province, which caused excessive energy consumption. The case study reveals that the enterprises are unwilling to cooperate actively with the energy audit, the reported statistics data...
The electric power industry has fully entered a new era. The industry has been consistently moving away from vertical integration and monopoly, and towards a competitively organized industry. There remain unfulfilled requirements for institutional reform. In this paper we confront existing strategic hypotheses about the nature of networked competition.
Nowadays there is a big concern about the energy resources all over the world. Energy is a very popular word, but it is a very abstract concept. It is a well-known fact that the energy cannot be created nor destroyed. It can readily be converted from one form into another. We should not be concerned about running out of energy. Energy is a property of the matter and is everywhere around us. For example,...
Industry develops new technologies and adopts them to improve products and processes. Since IT has an important effect on products, processes, organizations, it brought changes to overall industry. Service sectors improve processes or develop new business models using IT, such as ERP, electronic data processing method. This paper's purpose is to identify which technologies drive innovation in the...
Globalization is one of the main trends of our time. Simultaneously, the status of services in the software industry is becoming more significant. Service production is spreading all over the world in the global environment, creating international working teams where different cultures' working methods meet. In these situations, the cultural differences related to ways of communication and making...
Surveys on software engineering excellence (SEE) of the Japanese software industry were designed and administrated with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to measure software engineering capability from the viewpoint of deliverables, project management, quality assurance, process improvement, research and development, human development, and customer contacts. Using the cross-section...
Search for emerging technologies is important part for science and tech nology policy. Early detection of emerging technologies makes R&D str ategy setting possible. In this study, we suggest the methodology to se arch emerging technologies by knowledge mapping method. We exami ne the highly-cited-papers in SCOPUS publication DB from 2005 to 200 9. We can also examine the characteristics on some...
The empirical research about team creative atmosphere, team shared mental model and R&D team creativity functioning relations carried on in 215 R&D teams from 72 high-tech enterprises, involving a total of 651 R&D team members, covering Zhejiang, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other regions in China, and some significant conclusions have been obtained. First, derived from the...
Process assessment is a means to characterize a software process for improvements. The main result of an assessment is a set process profiles, which describes the gap between the assessed processes and reference processes. Based on assessment results and an organization's business goals, target process profiles are proposed, often with supplementary suggestions, how the target profiles can be implemented...
This paper explores the influences of patent performance, R&D capability, and employee productivity upon firm performance. This study uses patent intensity, revealed technology advantage in the most important technological field (RTAMIT), and average output per employee as the proxy variables of patent performance, R&D capability, and employee productivity in the American chemical industry...
The aim of this paper is to reveal the behavior and way of thinking of corporate R&D personnel when they break through a difficult problem and achieve an invention or discovery, and examine the relationship to organizational factors including the creative climate. We constructed a model of trial and error behavior and distributed a questionnaire on invention and discovery activities to 706 corporate...
This paper uses systems thinking to analyse environmental decisions and their interactions in the automotive industry. The motivation comes from the findings of an environmental decision making investigation undertaken from 2006 to 2010. Using data from 10 case companies, five principles of systems thinking theory were identified in a visual pattern analysis to undertake the assessment by considering...
The development of sustainable sources of energy is the grand challenge of the early 21st century, much as the moon landing was the first grand challenge of the Space Age. The organizational approach to these challenges, which require significant knowledge, learning, and innovation, is project-based: project management teams coordinate diverse discipline experts, scientists, engineers, business professionals,...
Change in software is considered the most prominent source of risk, affecting quality, cost and time. Managing software change is a resource consuming activity, and is particularly daunting when financial and human resources are limited. The complexity and necessity of properly managing software change has been highlighted in literature, but the process of managing it with limited resources still...
There have been numerous methods which are used to identify evolution of technologies. One prestigious of those methods has been analyzing the patent information using the visualization methods. An esteemed visualization method was also presented by Kim et al. in 2008, where some drawbacks of existing methods have been handled rigorously. In their proposed visualization method, collected keywords...
Indonesia has recognized the importance of innovation as to strengthen national and regional economic competitiveness in the globalization era. Therefore Indonesia is actively looking for a National Innovation System, which will be able to promote more innovation. However, Indonesia faces the challenge to build a system that answers the local environment and condition. Consequently, efforts are needed...
This paper aims on research entrepreneurship output performance from 1992 to 2009. Data are based on the online version of ISI Web of Science from 1992 to 2009 focusing on SSCI publishing paper that topic is to respect on entrepreneurship. This study synthetically uses the bibliometric method, study entrepreneurship institute and country analysis, source title, author keyword, and keyword plus analysis,...
In recent years, the product recall cases of Japanese companies which had organizational quality accidents have been seen frequently and these cases have made significant impact on corporate management. The study focuses on the Japanese automobile industry and aims to analyze relations between quality management and organizational capability by focusing on product defects and recalls data.
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