We in t roduce severa l genera l no t ions concerning the texts and the particularities of text processing on a computer support, in relation to some problems which are specific to M(A)T. And we present the solution we have proposed for the duration of the EUROTRA project.

As a much needed quality in today’s businesses, creativity is an important area of research. Whilst implementing and evaluating computer support for electronic brainstorming, it was noticed that the sheer presence of technology does neither guarantee usage nor success. Contextual factors such as organisational culture and attitudes seem to have an equally important role, and this observation ca...

Total factor productivity is enhanced by e-collaboration’s ability to spread technical change. Economic surplus analysis allows business executives and policy-makers to assess the value of technical change. It can also be extended to assess e-collaboration in order to rationally steer investment opportunities. It is imperative for business executives and policy-makers to empirically assess the ...

Maritime delimitation usually starts with the calculation of an equidistance line, which is often corrected for special circumstances. The correction process aims to produce a line that is “equitable”, a concept open to various interpretations. While the equidistance line is calculated by a technical expert, an equitable line is the result of a negotiation process. Technical support is, in that...

Small and medium-sized establishments (SMEs) account a large proportion of industrial employment and production in almost all countries. Moreover, the recent literature emphasizes the role SMEs play in nurturing entrepreneurship and generating new products and processes. Although SMEs could be a source of new ideas and innovations, there are substantial productivity differences between small an...

Culture and arts could be very much of hi-tech. Taiwan government has announced that e-learning as the featured policy of Taiwan since 2003. Almost all culture and arts e-learning programs designed by Council for Cultural Affairs and National Palace Museum. Both of them have started e-learning programs and developed a series of e-learning courses in multiple languages, moreover, they keep updat...

The fields of study encompassed by cyber science and engineering are broad and poorly defined at this time. As national governments and research communities increase their recognition of the importance, urgency and technical richness of these disciplines, a question of priorities arises: what specific sub-areas of research should be the foci of attention and funding? In this paper we point to a...

The increasingly strategic use of patents, and their importance for competitive advantage, pose special challenges for small high-tech firms. This paper seeks to add to our understanding of the strategic and economic effects of patents by exploring why small high-tech firms take out patents – and why not – and how these choices are linked to these firms’ broader business and technology strategi...

We address computer support for work and its coordination in one of the radio channels of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Based upon ethnographically inspired analysis and participatory design techniques, we propose design solutions now implemented or under implementation. We focus on cooperative aspects within and among the radio channel's editonal units, and between editorial units and t...

Zhuhai is a beautiful city located in south china. Through 20 years of development, Zhuhai has become a garden-like modern city. At present, Zhuhai functions as a Special Economic Zone, a Nation high-tech Developing Zone and a Duty-Free Industrial Zone simultaneously. Its GDP increased from 200 million RMB in 1979 to 23.5 billion RMB in 1997. The actual foreign direct investment volume increase...