The potential benefits of nanotechnologies in healthcare are widely expected to be enormous and a considerable amount of investment is already pouring into public research in this area. These high expectations of benefits are coupled with uncertainty surrounding the potential risks of the prospective products containing nanomaterials, in addition to concerns about the adequacy of regulatory ove...

The emerging industrial business partnerships, which feature cross-functional and cross-company development efforts, raise the barrier for the establishment of effective knowledge sharing practices in the larger organization. This chapter aims to highlight the role of knowledge as a key enabler for effective engineering activities in the light of such emerging enterprise collaboration models. K...

I describe our approach and mechanisms to support the engineering of organiza tional processes throughout their life cycle I describe our current understanding of what activities are included in the process life cycle I then go on to describe our ap proach computational mechanisms and experiences in supporting many of these life cycle activities as well as compare it to other related e orts Alo...

a Department of Organization and Management, CUNEF School of Business and Finance, C/Leonardo Prieto Castro 2, 28040 Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain b Ikujiro Nonaka Research Centre on Knowledge and Innovation, CUNEF School of Business and Finance, C/Leonardo Prieto Castro 2, 28040 Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain c Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Business...

There is widespread agreement on the important role higher education plays in preparing students to enter the workplace as positive contributors able to work in multidisciplinary teams. This is especially true in Engineering and Technology education where many pundits have estimated there will be a shortfall of qualified STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) graduates equal t...

In the first part of the paper, I argue that current pragmatic theories of NPI licensing fail to capture the distinction between strong and weak NPIs. Specifically, I will show that an analysis in terms of covert even alone can not account for the limited distribution of strong NPIs. In the second part, I investigate the implicatures of even sentences in weak licensing contexts. I show that the...

Nonparametric predictive inference (NPI) is a statistical method based on Hill’s assumption A(n) [13], which gives a direct conditional probability for a future observable random quantity, conditional on observed values of related random quantities [1, 3]. Suppose that X1, . . . , Xn, Xn+1 are continuous and exchangeable random quantities. Let the ordered observed values of X1, . . . , Xn be de...

Product Development Process (PDP) has been recognized as a source of competitive pro ̄ts, and thus, it has received increasing attention. The existing methods for monitoring PDP performance, however, are either cumbersome or fail to connect the competitive priorities to the performance management process. Accordingly, in this paper, a model to evaluate PDP performance is considered as a multi-cr...