Nearly two decades ago, an important concern of development thinking and international public policy centered on the movement of individuals with high human capital from low income countries to higher income countries — a phenomenon know as ‘reverse technology transfer’ or the ‘brain drain’. Subsequently the issue dropped out of sight, edged out by the immediacy of the problems confronting deve...

Many have written about the challenges that industrial research organizations face in trying to transfer the technology they create to other organizations. Research pursues a long and winding road from the proof of concept of a technology in the lab to the adoption of that technology by others and its use for corporate benefit. To follow the road to its end requires persistence, determination, ...

It is widely believed that an important factor underlying the rapid growth in China is increased foreign direct investment (FDI) and the transfer of foreign technology capital, which is accumulated know-how from investment in research and development (R&D), brands, and organizations that is not specific to a plant. In this paper, we study two channels through which FDI can contribute to upgradi...

This paper presents work carried out within the ‘ExPlanTech’ project (IST-199920171) funded in part by the European Commission's Information Technologies Programme. The mission of the ExPlanTech technology transfer project is to introduce, customize and exploit the multi-agent production planning technology (ProPlanT multi-agent system research prototype) in two specific industrial enterprises....

TT centers on the communication of information that is intended to accomplish a task. TT is a particularly difficult type of communication; often it is ineffective. TT is becoming a major management focus and involves a range of organizational, informational, and behavioral challenges to getting knowledge (ideas and products) from research to process and market applications in a cost effective,...

T transfer to low-cost locations offers global firms an opportunity to reduce their variable costs involved in serving emerging markets. However, such moves may also make imitation by local competitors easier. As a consequence, technology transfer may create competition in the local market. We introduce component-based technology transfer for the global firm as a means to deter or accommodate t...

The diffusion of innovation in the field software engineering is not well understood. This paper looks at how the legal field treats evidence in an attempt to identify ideas useful to both software engineering researchers and practitioners.

Correctly identifying and expressing dependability requirements for software systems has wide-ranging consequences for planning and conducting software development as well as for the final system success. Yet crucial difficulties exist, many stemming from the fact that definitions of “dependable” will vary not only from system to system, but will be perceived differently by different stakeholde...

In this study, the authors address a mobile web agent framework based on stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) to overcome the deficiencies, which the typical mobile web agent framework based on transmission control protocol (TCP) suffers from, such as performance degradation, head-of-line blocking and unsupported mobility in mobile wireless environment. The proposed SCTP-based mobile web...

With Bursty Task Arrivals Chin LU and Sau-Ming LAU Computer Science Department The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong Email: fclu, [email protected] AbstractUsually heuristic-based load balancing algorithms cannot provide satisfactory performance with bursty task arrivals because they assume stable arrival patterns. In this paper, we present an adaptive load balancing algorithm,w...