China - Can it move from imitation to innovation?

This report analyzes both positive and negative aspects of China's prospect of moving from imitation to innovation. The positive aspect is analyzed by Chinese innovation input/output index ratio and case studies of todays' innovative companies of Korea and Japan. It is shown that China is on the right track toward innovation by following an Imovator strategy. However, three impediments to be overcome are also identified by analysis of government issues, corporation issues and leadership issues. Finally, a bright future toward innovation is projected for China with examples of successful innovation cases

Relative importance analysis of inter-IS audit evaluation standards (Korea)

As a scale of the IS (Information System) becomes larger and level of dependence in creases, it becomes more important to examine and prevent potential risk factors that would occur during the development or operation process. Korean government introduced IS audit system in 2006 for stable development and efficient management. According to this law, every company who develop program for any Korean government branch over $500,000 is required to be audited. This audit system consists of 7 audit fields, 16 processes, 32 sub-areas, and 167 audit items. However, several problems have been raised that these criteria are unnecessarily fragmented and some of them are being overlapped thereby becoming inefficient as well as inconsistent. Therefore, this audit system needs to be evaluated as user demand level improves and software development environment changes rapidly. In this research, Korean IS audit items are prioritized using constant-sum method in order to identify their relative importance

Interactive R&D portfolio selection considering multiple objectives, project interdependencies, and time: A three-phase approach

Stummer C, Heidenberger K. Interactive R&D portfolio selection considering multiple objectives, project interdependencies, and time: A three-phase approach. In: Kocaoglu DF, Anderson TR, eds. Technology Management in the Knowledge Era: Proceedings of the Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET). Portland, Or.: PICMET; 2001: 423-428