IEEE Xplore - Virtual R&D teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration

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

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Ebrahim, N.A. ; Dept. of Eng. Design & Manuf., Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ; Ahmed, S. ; Rashid, S.H.A. ; Taha, Z.

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In this paper, we present our more than two years research experiences on virtual R&D teams in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and draws conclusions, giving special attention to the structure of virtual teams required to support education-industry collaboration. We report the relevant results of an online survey study. The online questionnaire was emailed by using a simple random sampling method to 947 manufacturing SMEs. The findings of this study show that SMEs in Malaysia and Iran are willing to use virtual teams for collaboration and the platform for industry-education collaboration is ready and distance between team members or differences in time zones, are not barriers to industry-education collaborations.

Published in:
Engineering Education (ICEED), 2010 2nd International Congress on
Date of Conference: 8-9 Dec. 2010

Page(s):

7 - 9

Print ISBN:

978-1-4244-7308-3

INSPEC Accession Number:

12095320

Conference Location :

Kuala Lumpur

Digital Object Identifier :

10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940754

IEEE Xplore - Virtual R&D teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration