Welcome to Innovation Quarterly in its new fully electronic format. eIQ aims to give you quick insight into trends and policies that affect business R&D and innovation management, together with the background data that you need to substantiate this insight.
In eIQ, you can read about discussions at recent EIRMA meetings. Home Sweet Home looks at ways to take full advantage of the local environment for R&D. Listening to the Neighbours considers companies’ experiences in Japan, Korea and the US, to see what European firms can learn from them. The Acquisitive Spirit examines the trend by companies to acquire technology from each other and from public research organisations and explores what constitutes good practice in managing these processes.
Chinese companies and institutions are becoming more important in R&D. Katarina Lundblad Pinnekamp explains the importance of having effective strategies for searching patents in situations where translations alone cannot suffice. Fernando Conesa describes a day in his life in the technology transfer centre of the University of Valencia, where staff work to develop policies, agreements, and most important of all mindsets that will be of mutual benefit to the university, its staff and students and the companies with which it collaborates.
The View from Europe by Andrew Dearing and View from Singapore by Arnoud De Meyer look at what is happening in these parts of the world. The authors touch on emerging public policy initiatives, such as the Aho report from the former Prime Minister of Finland, and describe different attitudes towards innovation. And a profile on Austria gives background data on what is happening in the country that currently holds the presidency of the European Union.
I hope that you find this magazine attractive and useful in its new format. As always, there is more detailed information available via the EIRMA website.
Please let us know what you think. You can send remarks to us by email (adearing@eirma.org) or using the contact us form on the EIRMA website.
Well, yes, we know that some of you prefer paper and we realise that there are places where you cannot (yet) access the internet. So every article and diagram contains a link to a ‘printer-friendly page’. These pages are in pdf format (we recommend installing the latest version 7 of Adobe Acrobat Reader) and have been set out in A4 format ready to be sent directly to your printer. There are also email buttons to send the articles to your colleagues.
Finally, each article and diagram ends with a cryptic message doi: eiq-2006-007-xxxx. This is its Digital Object Identification. The use of DOI technology is rapidly developing as the way to reference digital documents in a permanent and widely retrievable manner. Already, you can retrieve articles from this issue of eIQ from the EIRMA web site simply by quoting its DOI. In the coming months, we will extend this to all reports and publications and will register the links with the public systems managed at www.doi.org.
Walter Steinlin
President
EIRMA
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