Academic Leadership Journal9, 4 (2011) 1-5
HAL-SHS :: [hal-00690028, version 1] Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration
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| Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration |
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| Nader Ale Ebrahim 1Shamsuddin Ahmed 1 |
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| Introduction: With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry [1]. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses, expands the scope of industries in which a company must compete to achieve the competitive advantage. Information systems and technology allow companies to coordinate their activities in distant geographic locations [2]. IT is providing the infrastructure necessary to support the development of new collaboration forms among industry and education. Virtual research and development (R&D) teams represent one such relational form, one that could revolutionize the workplace and provide organizations with unprecedented levels of flexibility and responsiveness [3-4]. |
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| 1 : | University of Malaya (UM) |
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| Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya |
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| 2 : | Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering and Management Technology, University Malaysia Pahang (UMP) |
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| Domaine | : | Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Gestion et management Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Education |
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| Virtual R&D teams – Collaboration – virtual teams – SMEs – Education |
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HAL-SHS :: [hal-00690028, version 1] Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration