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      Vol.1 Number 1 ,  Winter 2004       Latest Industry News
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PICMET'04 Symposium in Korea co-hosted by STEPI "Innovation Management in the Technology-Driven World"

Over the past 40 years, humankind’s capacity to store, process and manage information has increased at a staggering, yet relatively predictable pace.  In one way or another, progress in the information age has been tied to “Moore’s Law”, which states that the number of devices on integrated circuits (or silicon chips) tends to quadruple about every three years.  More

The World Economic Forum  announced the 30 companies selected worldwide as  "Technology Pioneers" for 2004. Company nominations  are made by the international venture community and members, constituents and collaborators of the World Economic Forum. Candidates are reviewed and evaluated by an external Selection Advisory Committee. More 

The Petersberg Prize will recognize the most exemplary contribution in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for development during the last ten years. The awardee will receive the €100,000 Prize. Nominations are due by February 1, 2004.More

There are some facts that make India very interesting to study. In one side, India is considered today as the second largest country in population in the world, a country with the highest number of unemployment’s people, a country with more than 400 million people living with less than US$1 per day, a country with 36% of the poor people in the world, and 20% of the world’s out-of-school children. However, at the same time India has been focus of study from many developed and developing countries for their rapid growing and leading position in the software field around the world. More

Working together to further improve supply chain efficiencies and customer loyalty, Carrefour, Intel Corporation, METRO Group and Tesco have formed a European working group to accelerate the adoption of Electronic Product Code (EPC) technology. The technology will help improve inventory control, which will lead to reduced operating costs and increased margins. More  

Bioscience industry in Oregon is still small and growing incrementally. Oregon's commercial bioscience sector includes 185 companies in the following industries: medical devices, chemicals and reagents, human therapeutics (drug discovery and development), life sciences-oriented information technology, in vitro diagnostics, agriculture and food, and environment and waste. More

Nanogen's New Patent Boosts the Competion in Biochip Industry
	The new Nanogen patent describes a unique electric field 'pick and place' process that facilitates the bringing together or integration of diverse DNA nanocomponents, thereby helping solve difficult scaling issues. More

Recent research in the project management discipline places emphasis on establishing a link between organizational strategy and project management.  For some organizations, projects are the vehicles to business success.  Managing a project to its success is therefore very important.  An organization has to be assured that its project management, starting from project selection to project dissemination, is in line with its organizational strategy. More

Roche to expand global R&D activities by establishing a centre in Shanghai, China's biotech hub Roche will be the first global healthcare company to establish an R&D centre at Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in Shanghai, China. More  

Portland State University  Engineering and Technology Management Department is conducting a world wide research study on education and research in Engineering and Technology Management. More

Bell Labs have developed new software technologies that would enable users to tightly control how their location information is shared when using location-enabled mobile devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs). More  

A country is a complex system consisting of a set of elements connected by multiple and non-linear relationships. Technology foresight, commonly defined as a systematic process to identify critical technologies [1] [2] that will allow countries to develop consistently and reach their goals, has been growing in importance during the last two decades. More

The World Best Technologies (WBT) is produced in cooperation with the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) and the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF). The FLC represents over 700 federally funded research centers and laboratories throughout the U.S. The NASVF is a national organization of public agencies, private investors, and public/private partnerships serving those who invest in America's entrepreneurs. More

The Green Paper outlines what we understand as entrepreneurship and what are its constituent parts, explains the importance of entrepreneurship and assesses the state of entrepreneurship in Europe. The Paper addresses two key issues for Europe. Firstly, why do so few people start a business, when a relatively large number of individuals express their interest in entrepreneurship? Secondly, why do so few European enterprises grow and why do those that grow do so at such a modest rate? More

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said  that China is open to the advice of overseas experts in the process of drafting a medium and long-term plan for the advancing of science and  technology. Wen said China adopts an open approach in drafting a plan that is oriented to the world and the future. Wen made the remarks in a meeting with overseas experts attending a forum on science and technology development planning for the coming two decades in Beijing. More  

ETHICOMP 2004 is the seventh conference in the series. The conference will be held on 14-15-16 April 2004 at the University of the Aegean in Syros, Greece, in collaboration with the Athens University of Economics and Business, the largest and most prestigious business school in South Eastern Europe. More 

Michael Cusumano is Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and his former graduate student Annabelle Gawer, now at INSEAD have written a good book of explaining why Intel in particular dominated its industry in the 1990s.More