Volume 20 Issue 1 (2002)
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Are We Eating our Seed Corn?: Basic Research in the US Corporate Sector
Since the mid-1980s, industrial research in the United States has gone through major organizational changes. Funding for centralized corporate research laboratories in the high technology industry, which leads in research,…
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Accelerating Technology: The Pace of Transmission Systems
The growths in capacity of various generations of transmission technology were studied. The results show that the growth rates for different transmission technologies are themselves increasing, which means that the…
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Patterns of Telecommuting Engagement and Frequency: A Cluster Analysis of Telecenter Users
Cluster analysis of sign-in log data for 115 users of California telecenters was conducted to identify patterns of telecommuting engagement and frequency over a six-month window. Three engagement clusters were…
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Acceptance and Leadership–Hegemonies of E-Commerce Policy Perspectives
This paper presents an analysis of the e-Commerce policies developed and implemented in the USA, Canada, Australia, Victoria, Finland, Norway, the UK, Ireland, the EU (by the OECD), Singapore, Japan,…
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Perspectives on the Scientific Systems of the Post-Soviet States: A Pessimistic View
This paper deals with the research and development/science and technology situation in the post-Soviet states. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, these countries have chosen different ways to transform…