This paper discusses what an engineering school at a university may do for stimulating the manufacturing excellence in industry. Aalborg University will be used as a case example with its unique use of problem-based learning methods. This approach is also imbedded in a new research initiative, The Center for Industrial Production. Examples of industry involvement in research and development pro...

This paper examines the importance of local knowledge spillovers for the innovative and economic performance of firms in a developing country context. Theoretical and empirical studies in advanced economies underline the significance of local knowledge spillovers for innovation. However, not much is known about whether local knowledge spillovers work similarly in developing countries. This anal...

This paper investigates the interaction between exporting and productivity at firm level , using a panel of firms in UK chemical industry which is highly technology intensive and the largest UK manufacturing exporter. We find exporters are on average smaller but more productive than non-exporters. Applying empirical techniques from Bernard and Jensen(2001) and Kraay(1999), we find the superior ...

A large number of tools are available in the software industry to support different aspects of knowledge management (KM). Some comprehensive applications and vendors try to offer global solutions to KM needs; other tools are highly specialized. In this paper, state-of-theart KM tools grouped by specific classification areas and functionalities are described. Trends and integration efforts are d...

The internal tobacco industry documents have also been used to study tobacco industry operations outside the United States. The scope of the documents on a country outside the US is decided mainly by the extent to which documents and reports were transmitted from the abroad offices of the US tobacco companies to headquarters. We explored whether the material from a private archive of a Finnish ...

Has India realized its potential for high-caliber computer science research as indicated by (a) its having one of the largest technical manpower in the world, (b) its software industry's tremendous growth in the recent past, and (c) the demand in the West for students from its top science and technology educational institutions? This paper addresses this question, in the context of Computer Sci...

OEE measurement is also commonly used as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) in conjunction with lean manufacturing efforts to provide an indicator of success. It quantifies how well a manufacturing unit performs relative to its designed capacity, during the periods when it is scheduled to run. It is a well known concept in maintenance and is a way of measuring the effectiveness of a machine whic...

In this paper we present initial findings from an empirical study that has been conducted with 13 marketdriven software companies based in Recife, Brazil. The objective of the study is to explore the state of the practice in requirements engineering (RE) for commercial off-theshelf software products. The study followed a qualitative research method using questionnaire and semi-structured interv...

This article explains how the salt-chemical industry may evolve over time from a high-energy consumption-based industry complex in the local community to a consolidated pro-growth pluralist regime at the urban scale. The salt-chemical industry is resisting to restructure to a sustainable, environmentalfriendly economic system by spilling over in the form of pro-growth political-economic coaliti...