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Virtual R&D teams: innovation and technology facilitator

Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company’s success in the 21st century. In the competitive environment is necessary for the enterprises to put together different capabilities and services with the goal. It’s a widely accepted that innovation is better achieved by working in te...

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Main Authors:	Ale Ebrahim, N., Ahmed, S., Taha , Z.
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2009
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General) L Education (General) T Technology (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.um.edu.my/2242/1/Virtual%2520R%26D%2520Teams%2520Innovation%2520and%2520Technology.pdf http://eprints.um.edu.my/2242/ http://cee.ut.ac.ir/index.html
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spelling	my.um.eprints.22422011-10-31T03:17:13Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/2242/ Virtual R&D teams: innovation and technology facilitator Ale Ebrahim, N. Ahmed, S. Taha , Z. H Social Sciences (General) L Education (General) T Technology (General) Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company’s success in the 21st century. In the competitive environment is necessary for the enterprises to put together different capabilities and services with the goal. It’s a widely accepted that innovation is better achieved by working in team. The employed web services technology, although very popular nowadays but it is still not mature enough, so dealing with it can bring new findings. Virtual teams base on information technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it should be noted that innovation has a positive impact on corporate performance. Information and communication technology has brought about significant changes in organizations and produced important benefits, including in the areas of innovation which is recognized as a prime source of national competitive advantage. This contribution proposes a conceptual model for understanding and analyzing the process of virtual R&D team as an innovation and technology assimilation facilitator. The context of the knowledge-based economy introduces a major shift from serial to simultaneous R&D in the way of idea conception to technology creation is conceived. This paper briefly reviews the existing perspectives on virtual teams and their effect on innovation and technology. It also discusses the main characteristics of virtual teams and clarifies the differences aspects of virtual team application in the topic. To support the theoretical analysis, this paper provides a comprehensive review based on authentic and reputed publications. We argue that scanty research has been conducted to facilitate understanding the problem of systematically governing creative innovation toward a technology through virtual R&D teams. 2009-05-12 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_public_domain http://eprints.um.edu.my/2242/1/Virtual%2520R%26D%2520Teams%2520Innovation%2520and%2520Technology.pdf Ale Ebrahim, N. and Ahmed, S. and Taha , Z. (2009) Virtual R&D teams: innovation and technology facilitator. In: Engineering Education in 2025, 11-12 May, School of Engineering and Technology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. http://cee.ut.ac.ir/index.html
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description	Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company’s success in the 21st century. In the competitive environment is necessary for the enterprises to put together different capabilities and services with the goal. It’s a widely accepted that innovation is better achieved by working in team. The employed web services technology, although very popular nowadays but it is still not mature enough, so dealing with it can bring new findings. Virtual teams base on information technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it should be noted that innovation has a positive impact on corporate performance. Information and communication technology has brought about significant changes in organizations and produced important benefits, including in the areas of innovation which is recognized as a prime source of national competitive advantage. This contribution proposes a conceptual model for understanding and analyzing the process of virtual R&D team as an innovation and technology assimilation facilitator. The context of the knowledge-based economy introduces a major shift from serial to simultaneous R&D in the way of idea conception to technology creation is conceived. This paper briefly reviews the existing perspectives on virtual teams and their effect on innovation and technology. It also discusses the main characteristics of virtual teams and clarifies the differences aspects of virtual team application in the topic. To support the theoretical analysis, this paper provides a comprehensive review based on authentic and reputed publications. We argue that scanty research has been conducted to facilitate understanding the problem of systematically governing creative innovation toward a technology through virtual R&D teams.
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title	Virtual R&D teams: innovation and technology facilitator
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