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      Spring, 2004, Vol.1 Number 2  

Technology Management Newsletter - Vol.1- No. 2 - Spring 2004

PICMET (Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology) has traditionally been held in Portland, Oregon, USA, as a biennial conference in the odd-numbered years.  This year, however, a PICMET symposium will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Seoul, Korea, on July 31—August 4, 2004.  The symposium will be jointly hosted with STEPI (Science and Technology Policy Institute, Korea). More

The study was done by New York-based Catalyst Inc., a nonprofit research and  advisory group for women in business. "Not surprisingly, the barriers and demands  of the high-tech industry are very similar to those of traditional industries," says Ilene  Lang, president of Catalyst. "What is surprising is that in an industry that thinks of  itself as a meritocracy, women and men both perceive a lack of acceptance of women." More

Several electronics manufacturers and research institutes in Europe have joined forces in a European Union-funded project aimed at developing low-cost, polymer-based electronic circuits. PolyApply, a new, four-year research project launched by the European Commission under its 6th Research, Technological development, and Demonstration Framework Programme.  More

by Graham Robinson, Samsung Electronics
Within the last ten years, Korea has demonstrated an unprecedented level of technological achievements. These include being:
- Ranked no. 1 in penetration of high-speed internet access in the world
- Ranked no. 1 in world market share in high-tech industries such as DRAM, TFT_LCD and CDMA More

  by Nathasit Gerdsri
Increasing global market competition is having a strong impact on the design and development of new products. To survive under this intense pressure, companies see R&D investment as a key solution. Planning investment in the right technologies will help companies support the future development of their new products. More

Intel Launches Korean R&D Center
	Intel Korea announced the establishment of the Intel Korea Research and Development Center in Seoul. The center focuses on innovating advanced wireless communications technology, high-quality media coding, and next-generation platforms for content distribution and consumption. More

Biochip is one of the revolutionary commercial biotechnology products of  the  human genome project. New biochip technology is giving to doctors new answers  and patients new hopes. But on the other side there are a lot of concerns about the  impact of biochip technology which are mainly ethical issues surrounding genetic screening and testing. More

Paris, March 26, 2004 - Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) and Intel®  announced a 
strategic alliance for the definition, the standardization, the development, the integration and the marketing of WiMAX end to end solutions. This alliance will deliver solutions by second half 2005.  
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World conferences of science do not have a good track record, particularly when one of their main functions is to generate new international funding commitments to support research in developing countries. The United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development, held in 
Vienna in 1979, failed in this objective; while the meeting ended with a promise to seek up to an 
extra US$250 million to support such efforts, spending in this area in fact dropped considerably 
over the following two decades, particularly in Africa.  More

Mihail (Mike) Roco, NSF Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, has been named NSF Engineer of the Year 2004. Dr. Roco is a key architect of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), an interagency effort aimed at advancing research and development in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. More

Researchers in Latin America can look forward to better knowledge sharing and intra-regional 
scientific exchanges with the approval of a €12.5 million project for research networking infrastructure. The Commission will finance 80% of a €12.5 million IT project to create a research networking infrastructure helping Latin American researchers exchange information and share ideas regionally, but also with Europe through its networking grid, Géant.  More   

The Chinese government has introduced its first regulations allowing the cloning of human embryos 
for research purposes under tightly specified conditions. However, the regulations, which came into force last month, outlaw 'reproductive' cloning, or the cloning of a human to produce another human More   

This book was written by  Christensen is a professor at Harvard Business School  and Raynor, a director at Deloitte Research. Authors stress that the challenges facing many CEOs today are managing the two types of innovation strategy - Incremental and disruptive- simultaneously within the same firm.  The Innovator's Solution does a great job of explaining how to transform your organization into an "engine" of disruptive growth. More