INTRODUCTION The e-commerce revolution has affected all organizations. Of particular interest is its effect on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), because we can observe an interesting duality, where these companies are most likely to benefit from the opportunities afforded by e-commerce (because through e-commerce, it is possible to level the playing field), and yet they appear to be sl...

1Department of Imaging and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. 2Institute of Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China. 3Institute of Health Sciences,Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (SJTUSM) & Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), Chinese Aca...

Although motivating electronic business (e-business) adoption and implemention by smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is endorsed by policies and initiatives introduced by the European Union (EU), a number of challenges arise as the result of a limited conceptual understanding of the relationship between SMEs and information and communication technologies (ICTs). Relatively little is known...

1International Joint Cancer Institute and 301 General Hospital Cancer Center, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai; 2National Engineering Research Center for Antibody Medicine and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Cell Engineering & Antibody, Shanghai; and 3School of Medicine and School of Pharmacy, Center for Antibody Medicine of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai,...

1Department of Consulting and Diagnostics, Central Research Institute of Dentistry and Maxillofacial Surgery, Russia 2Department of oral & maxillofacial surgery, Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education Studies, Russia 3Department of Oral Maxillofacial Head Neck Oncology, Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, ...

Ye Yu, Wei-Guang Li, Zhi Chen, Hui Cao, Huaiyu Yang, Hualiang Jiang, and Tian-Le Xu From the Institute of Neuroscience and State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China, the Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Scie...

1 Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 280 South Chongqing Road, Shanghai, 200025, PR China 2 Translational Medicine Collaborative Innovation Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 280 South Chongqing Road, Shanghai, 200025, PR China 3 Collaborative Innovation Center of Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao ...

Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, People’s Republic of China, Shanghai Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Superconductors, Shanghai 200444, People’s Republic of China, Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA, National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People’s...

Although research indicates e-commerce offers viable and practical solutions for organizations to meet challenges of a predominantly changing environment, the few available studies related to SMEs in developing countries reveal a delay or failure of SMEs in adopting ICT and e-commerce technologies. The various factors identified as causes for the reticence can be broadly classified as Internal ...

Bridging the gap between knowledge institutions (especially universities) and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is one of the challenges of present economic policy. Innovation is one important aspect of this policy. However, the characteristics of both universities and SMEs appear to be an obstacle in bridging the gap between these two groups. In particular, this paper aims to highlight...