necessary to support the development of new collaboration forms among industry and education. Virtual research and development …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 …

collaboration in SMEs. Specifying the foundation and importance of virtual teams, the relationship between virtual R & D team and …Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the driving engine behind economic growth. While SMEs play a critical role in … development (R & D) aspect deserves particular attention to promote and facilitate the operations of SMEs. Virtual R & D team …

literature review is to provide an outline on the structure and dynamics of R&D collaboration in SMEs. Specifying the rationale …Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a … be a viable option to sustain and ease the operations of SMEs. However, literature shows there has not been a great deal …

This paper aims at explaining why countries with comparable levels of education still experience notable differences in …

Following Ben-Porath (1967), the influence of life expectancy on education has attracted much attention. Whereas … existing growth models rely on an education decision made either by the child or by his parent, we revisit the Ben …-Porath effect when the education is the outcome of a bargaining between the parent and the child. We develop a three-period OLG …

education to the question of how to raise equality of capability. In this paper we propose an assessment based on the capability …