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The Impact Of Social Capital On Innovation Intermediaries, Songphon Munkongsujarit
The Impact Of Social Capital On Innovation Intermediaries, Songphon Munkongsujarit
Dissertations and Theses
In today's open business environments, innovation happens in globally dispersed organizations that exchange technological knowledge across increasingly permeable boundaries. Innovation intermediaries play an important role in these technology transfer processes. They operate as middle-men between solution seekers (companies seeking technological knowledge for solving their problems) and problem solvers (experts with specialized knowledge and solutions) and thus help to connect suppliers and customers of technological knowledge. Currently, clients that select an intermediary organization and managers of intermediary organizations that assign agents to a project have very little guidance as to what type of an intermediary they should select to guarantee that …
Applying Technology Forecasting To New Product Development Target Setting Of Lcd Panels, Dong-Joon Lim, Neil Runde, Timothy R. Anderson
Applying Technology Forecasting To New Product Development Target Setting Of Lcd Panels, Dong-Joon Lim, Neil Runde, Timothy R. Anderson
Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations
This chapter illustrates the Technology Forecasting using Data Envelopment Analysis (TFDEA) process on Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) performance characteristics from 1997 to 2012. The objective of this study is to forecast future state-of-the-arts (SOAs) specifications as well as to diagnose past technological advancement of the LCD industry. Appropriate characteristics were determined from a group of LCD technologists. Data was gathered from public databases and outlying data points were cross-referenced as a validity check. The TFDEA process is defined and its application to the dataset is described in detail. The results not only provide information on how LCD industry has evolved …