Technology & Innovation Management: - PICMET Conference

PAPERS AND PANELS
This paper presents a fuzzy multiple attribute decision making
(FMADM) using a simplified centroid-based arithmetic method for
implementing an integrated manufacturability management model.
The method is simple and can be used to handle large-scale FMADM
problems, such as product design and manufacturing analysis. Thus
the analysis cycle can be shortened with more attributes considered.
WG-14.4 - Innovation Through AirShip Technology
Benjamin Berry, Providence Health System
Today, ground and air transportation remains effective but separate
modes of operation. Cars are relegated to streets and highways and
benefits of aircraft are not realized until they are airborne. Using
Resonant Macrosonic Synthesis (RMS) and hydraulic turbine propulsion,
this paper introduces a new class of transportation system —
The AirShip. An Oregon company, AirShip Technologies, is developing
this Vertical Lift Transport Vehicle to fly 300 to 400 feet above
ground as well as drive on city streets.
WG-14.5 - Organizational Design of Automanagement Teamworks
Supported by Competitive Performance
Carolina Fares, University de Sao Paulo
Sergio Takahashi, University of Sao Paulo
This work has the objective of studying the organizational design of
teamwork in a perspective of competitive performance: cost, time,
flexibility, quality and innovation. This study presents an integrated
analysis with organizational structure, the team variables and the
capabilities of teams. A case study in a service company is presented.
WG-14.6 - Strategizing Corporate Information Technology into the
Millennium
Loretta Evans, George Washington University, Bell Atlantic, NSI
Given that the millennium is the priority for firms for the coming
years, the role of information system should be straightforward.
However, satisfying internal customers who are awaiting technical
solutions that are neither operational nor millennium-related is a challenge
that requires attention even if nothing can be done immediately.
WG-14.7 Explaining Managerial Satisfaction with Government Support
of Technology Start-Ups: An Empirical Study of the Innovation
Ontario Corporation
Stephen Preece, Wilfrid Laurier University
Grant Miles, University of North Texas
Mark Baetz, Wilfrid Laurier University
A program involving government equity positions in early-stage
technology-based firms is empirically evaluated using responses
from a survey of 75 CEOs participating in the program. Variables
including dependence on government funding, level of interference,
and perceptions of procedural justice (among others) are related to
overall satisfaction with the program.
HB-01 Thursday, July 29, 1999
10:00 - 11:30 Galleria-1
Policy Issues in Technology Management - 1
Chair: Dragan Milosevic, Portland State University
HB-01.1 - Aligning National Policy and Technology: Of Tofflerian
Waves and Strategic Technologies
John Peterson, Lucent Technologies Inc.
Kenneth Wofford, Xerox Corporation
Redistribution of state assets (socio-political power, intellectual capital
and economic investment) has serious economic, political, social
and security consequences. Unfortunately, macro economics remains
the real driver of national priorities, even though it seldom links
directly to innovation, business strategy, and the technology driven
management and operational practices that are the primary drivers of
localized second order socio-political (national technology) considerations.
A parallel approach championing an innovation infrastructure
to create and leverage regional growth engines and knowledgebased
competitive entities will be presented.
HB-01.2 - Building Effective Public R&D Programmes
Paul Timmers, European Commission, DGIII-Industry
The design of public R&D programmes raises questions about issues
such as key actors involved, balance between fundamental and applied
work, etc. Answering them requires understanding the possible programme
design approaches. An inventory is presented, with an analysis
as to strategy development, along with a description of the programme
design approaches of the European Union’s ESPRIT IT programme.
HB-02 Thursday, July 29, 1999
10:00 - 11:30 Galleria-2
R&D Management - 9
Chair: Ryo Hirasawa, Japan National Institute of Science & Techology
Policy
HB-02.1 - Factors That Determine the R&D Structure of a Multi-
National Company: A Questionnaire Survey
Sam Kurokawa, Vanderbilt University
Kenzo Fujisue, University of Tokyo
Brian Parker, Vanderbilt University
It is becoming a strategically important decision where multi-national
companies (MNCs) should conduct their engineering and R&D
activities. By surveying American, European and Japanese MNCs,
this paper investigates: 1) why MNCs globalize their technologies; 2)
types of problems they face in globalizing their technologies; and 3)
how MNCs manage these problems.
HB-02.2 - R&D Organizational Process on Liquid Crystal Display: An
Internationally Comparative Analysis Based on Patents
Tomohiro Ijichi, Japan National Institute of Science & Techology Policy
Ryo Hirasawa, Japan National Institute of Science & Techology Policy
This paper aims at clarifying the mechanism of R&D processes in the
organizations. It analyses the organizational processes for developing
liquid crystal displays at fourteen organizations in the United States,
Europe, Korea and Japan. It indicates differences on the management
of the accumulation and utilization of R&D competence among the
organizations.
HB-02.3 - Integrating Research and Development in the Subsidiaries
of Transnational Companies: Cultural and Other Issues
Linda Wilkins, Monash University
Dilek Karaomerlioglu, Chalmers University of Technology
Globalization and subcontracting in high tech areas of electronic
engineering and software development and the implications of these
developments are gaining increasing attention from the media. We
investigate some of the implications for transnational companies
moving along the spectrum from the traditional R&D management
role to an approach where R & D activities are integrated so that the
entire network behaves as a coordinated whole (cf Kuemmerle,1997).
HB-02.4 - Lead Markets and the International Allocation of R&D
Marian Beise, University of Karlsruhe
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