Documents industrial research 11 results

"America is the world leader in innovation, but many of the innovative ideas that are hatched in American start-ups, labs, and companies end up going abroad to reach commercial scale. Apple, the superstar of innovation, locates its production in China (yet still reaps most of its profits in the United States). When innovation does not find the capital, skills, and expertise it needs to come to market in the United States, what does it mean for economic growth and job creation? Inspired by the MIT Made in America project of the 1980s, Making in America brings experts from across MIT to focus on a critical problem for the country. MIT scientists, engineers, social scientists, and management experts visited more than 250 firms in the United States, Germany, and China. In companies across America--from big defense contractors to small machine shops and new technology startups--these experts tried to learn how we can rebuild the industrial landscape to sustain an innovative economy. At each stop, they asked this basic question: "When you have a new idea, how do you get it into the market?" They found gaping holes and missing pieces in the industrial ecosystem. Critical strengths and capabilities that once helped bring new enterprises to life have disappeared: production capacity; small and medium-size suppliers; spillovers of research, training, and new technology from big corporations. ( Production in the Innovation Economy, also published by the MIT Press in 2013, describes this research.) Even in an Internet-connected world, proximity to innovation and users matters for industry. Making in America describes ways to strengthen this connection, including public-private collaborations, new government-initiated manufacturing innovation institutes, and industry-community college projects. If we can learn from these ongoing experiments in linking innovation to production, American manufacturing could have a renaissance. "

"More than 350 experts from over 40 countries, mainly from industry, but also from research institutions and organisations, academia, national governments, international organisations and statistical offices met in Berlin to discuss how to enrich European research and competitiveness by recruiting, retaining and promoting more women in industrial R&D. There was a clear consensus that there is an urgent business need to improve gender diversity in European research. Discussions on good practice and effective strategies drew upon the WIR -report: Women in industrial research. A wake up call for European industry, which presented data for Europe for the first time, introduced by Prof. Dr. Helga Rübsamen-Waigmann (Bayer AG), who chaired the expert group and the rapporteur, Prof. Dr. Teresa Rees (University of Cardiff). This information has been supplemented by the WIR- study: Women in industrial research. Analysis of statistical data and good practices of companies, presented by Prof. Dr. Danièle Meulders (Université Libre de Bruxelles), who headed this international research project, and the publication: Women in industrial research. Good practice in companies in Europe, which presents company-level data, examples of good practice, and role models from 20 companies and private non-profit research institutions from 12 different European countries."

"Il est de plus en plus courant aujourd'hui de se plaindre d'une "mauvaise fatigue" dont seraient responsables les conditions de vie et de travail modernes. Mais les concepts et les analyses sociologiques manquent encore pour rendre compte de ce phénomène. A partir d'une étude historique et de plusieurs enquêtes sur la perception de la fatigue dans différents milieux professionnels (infirmières, travailleurs sociaux, ouvriers d'industrie, conducteurs de bus et chauffeurs routiers), cet ouvrage montre que la compréhension de la fatige doit partir du sens que les acteurs donnent à leur engagement dans le travail et des formes de régulation sociale spécifiques. La sensation de fatigue est donc plus une affaire individuelle et renvoie à tout un ensemble d'accords et de conflits qui structurent les discours et les perceptions."

"This paper evaluates a program of subsidies for Collaborative Industrial Research (co-) funded by the EU Cohesion Policy in Italy mobilizing over 1 billion euros. This program anticipated in the 2007-2013 funding cycle some of the key features of Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) programmes, offering evidence-based insights on potential challenges to the practical application of the S3 approach. The programme was not successful in boosting investments, value added or employment of beneficiary firms. The collaborative dimension of the projects added limited value and a more generous level funding would have not improved effectiveness. However, positive impacts emerged in low tech sectors. "

"The automobile industry faces increasing demands from society to reduce emissions from road vehicles. The objective of this paper is to assess whether the EU automobile industry has an appropriate innovation structure for R&D in low carbon vehicles and the role that public R&D policy can play. The Sectoral System of Innovation approach is used to map the innovation system. Then, the functions of the Technological Innovation System (TIS) framework are used to explore the innovation processes in the system. The analysis has shown that there is an effective innovation system, which may soon move into a growth phase of large scale technology diffusion. There is now a concentration of industrial research efforts on battery and hybrid electric vehicles. Since technologies such as fuel cells and composite materials have potential benefits, public R&D support may be needed to ensure their development in a range of relevant firms in the EU."