Capital Needs for American Industrial Development

Public Capital, Infrastructure and Industrial Development

Collaborative development: Industrial experiences and needs for further research

This short paper describes briefly results from industrial and literature survey about collaborative software development. The work done is part of the MERLIN project, an ITEA project lasting from July 2004 to June 2007. The Merlin consortium [1] consists of both research and industrial partners. The industrial partners represent several divergent embedded SW business areas: telecommunications,...

Upcoming Industrial Needs for Search

Enterprise search and web searching have different goals and characteristics. Whereas internet browsing can sometimes be seen as a form of entertainment, enterprise search involves activities in which search is mainly a tool. People have work they want to get done. In this context, the idea of relevance in documents is different. Community can become as important as content in search. Work-rela...

Industrial Needs for Language Resources

Motivation LRs are needed for the language industry, for the translation industry, and in general for any content industry. Large companies produce their own resources for the languages for which a business can be made, but small companies cannot afford this, and often no resources are built for less spoken languages this way. Additionally, resources that are built by companies are normally not...

Social Capital and Industrial Transformation

This paper is an exploration of the social capital needs of industrial development. ‘Social capital’ attracts considerable attention in socio-political analysis and we are beginning to see its application to development economics. There has not, as far as I know, been any attempt to apply it to the determinants of successful industrialisation in the developing world. This essay is a preliminary...