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Peer Evaluation : Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration

Title : Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration
Author(s) : Nader Ale Ebrahim
Abstract : 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].
Keywords : Virtual R&D teams, Collaboration, virtual teams, SMEs, Education

Subject : Technology Management
Area : Management
Language : English
Year : 2011

Affiliations Research Support Unit, Centre of Research Services, Institute of Research Management and Monitoring (IPPP), University of Malaya, Malaysia
Journal : Academic Leadership Journal
Volume : 9
Issue : 4
Pages : 1-5
Isbn : 1533-7812
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Peer Evaluation : Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration

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