"Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration" by Nader Ale Ebrahim, et al.

Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration

Nader Ale Ebrahim, Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya
Shamsuddin Ahmed
Zahari Taha

Abstract

Introduction: With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry [1]. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses, expands the scope of industries in which a company must compete to achieve the competitive advantage. Information systems and technology allow companies to coordinate their activities in distant geographic locations [2]. IT is providing the infrastructure necessary to support the development of new collaboration forms among industry and education. Virtual research and development (R&D) teams represent one such relational form, one that could revolutionize the workplace and provide organizations with unprecedented levels of flexibility and responsiveness [3-4].

Suggested Citation

Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, and Zahari Taha. "Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration" Academic Leadership Journal 9.4 (2011): 1-5.
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/aleebrahim/61

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