After listing various approaches used over the years to teach OR/MS and quantitative methods and showing sample references for each, this paper suggests that taxonomies, when used in combination with any other approach, can uniquely serve an important educational objective - showing the overall...

Over at least three decades many a call has been recorded to have the OR/MS education and research community increase its real-world relevance and meaningfully address issues of consequence. In this century productivity became a major strategic or policy issue for competitiveness within the...

Transfer of Technologies (TT) takes place among various kinds of players, takes on various kinds of modalities and is done for various motivations. Its literature is very disjoint and disparate. It transcends several academic disciplines and professions. This paper presents a taxonomy defining...

Illegal transfer of technology (ITT) is one of the major policy formulation, industrial management, and law enforcement issues of this decade. It includes industrial espionage, the piracy of; software, logos, and hardware designs and it overlaps with issues of terrorism and those involving...

Content analysis was performed on the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) literature appearing in refereed journals. The extant DEA literature, reported in Gattoufi et al.1 was subdivided in two ways. The first considers all articles appearing during the life-cycle of 22 selected major DEA...

This paper is about 40 sovereign nations, spread across Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. All are at the lower or lowest ranks of social and economic development. All need infusions of technologic and other know-how. A major subset of all poor or emerging countries their commonality with all its...

This paper discusses India's institutionalized technology transfer (TT) policies and practices and examines their impact on economic development. The paper is organized chronologically. The pre-independence era is sub-organized into: early history and British colonial period. The...

This paper discusses India's post independence technology transfer (TT) policies and practices and examines their impact on economic development. It then juxtaposes similar findings for two other countries - Turkey and Israel. All three gained independence in the 20th century. At independence...

This paper provides a historical perspective on Ordinarius Professor Albert Eckstein. He was the architect of modern pediatrics in Turkey, while in forced exile from Nazi Germany. 2005 is the 55th anniversary of Prof. Albert Eckstein's death and the 60th anniversary of founding the Pediatric...

This paper examines the hypothesis: Nations where French is the dominant second language, lag significantly behind in social, economic, and particularly in technological development. The countries examined are located on different continents Asia, Africa (North and sub-Sahara), Europe, and in...