This article describes one person’s experience in coming from an academic environment to work at Digital Equipment Corporation. The author feels his own experience has paralleled the transfer of AI technology from academia to industry, where AI researchers must live up to very different expectations, but, also enjoy very different rewards. This article covers the historical background of DEC’s ...

Article history: Received 30 July 2014 Received in revised form 4 June 2015 Accepted 22 June 2015 Available online 6 July 2015 The electrification of the powertrain leads to fundamental changes in the automotive value chain. Thereby, original equipmentmanufacturers (OEMs) have to decide whichmanufacturing steps to perform in-house andwhich parts to source from joint ventures or suppliers. This ...

Individual adoption of technology has been studied extensively in the workplace (Brown & Venkatesh, 2005). Far less attention has been paid to adoption of technology in the household (Brown & Venkatesh, 2005). Obviously, mobile phone is now integrated into our daily life. Indeed, according to the more recent forecast of Gartner Research, 986 millions of mobile phones have been sold throughout t...

The structure and operation of today's financial markets largely reflect relatively recent advances in electronic information technology and its applications. The ability of market participants to communicate and store vast amounts of information at very high speeds has irreversibly transformed the landscape of these markets. The age of the global, twenty-four-hour-day market is at hand.' Signi...

Research Institutions (RIs) in last decades have been involved in both production of technological applications and commercialisation of research results for the sake of technology transfer. These tasks are frequently taken as overlapping by both practitioners and theory, whereas they should be ideally separated. The present paper focus on the latter, by questioning why RIs have to be involved ...