This paper examines the phenomenon of Community Design. It is a radical phenomenon in that community members collectively grow their own community information infrastructures without the intervention of professionals typically associated with such endeavors. A recently initiated comparative study draws on ongoing, longitudinal research engagements with a small number of communities and has iden...

The purpose of this essay is to design a framework of a performance system which is subject to the characteristics of China high-tech enterprises. It is based on analyzing the principles and significance of the performance system of high-tech enterprises. The framework will promote the standardization management of high-tech enterprises of China.

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I am interested in what I refer to as collaborative Knowledge-Building Environments (KBEs).These are software environments for supporting the construction of knowledge by groups of people. I consider this to be a paradigmatic task of CSCL (computer supported collaborative learning) because I assume that the notion of collaborative learning that CSCL practitioners strive to support is a construc...

The term ‘behavior’ is used ubiquitously in engineering. It refers roughly to the way technical artifacts ‘behave’ in a given or hypothetical situation, and plays a pivotal role in specific design methodologies since it allows connecting descriptions of the physical structure of technical artifacts to descriptions of their technical functions. However, behavior does not have a precise meaning: ...

1. Sources of funding: Support for this research was received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. No industry funding of any kind was sought or received. McKitrick is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Guelph. His Senior Fellowship at the Fraser Institute is an unpaid position, and was completely unrelated to this project. Michaels contributed to ...

The paper validates the relations between the share of public and private R&D spending and the effectiveness of national R&D sector. It states that in order to implement effective and profitable “high-tech policy”, governments have to intensify the share of business sector in Gross Domestic Expenditures on R&D. At the same time it is necessary to preserve the definite “government share” in R&D ...