MILTON KEYNES, England, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Some of the most contentious moral issues of today's society are the focus of Ethics Bites - a new series of podcasts from The Open University that features contributions from some of the most emine ...
As part of the activities under the E-Move proposals, the British Open University has been conducting surveys of its students on three different courses in the area of continuing professional development. This paper examines some of the questions arising from the initial results of this survey, and in particular: What...
Service integration and domain interoperability are the basic requirements in the development of current service-oriented e-Government applications. Semantic Web and, in particular, Semantic Web Service SWS technology aim to address these issues. However, the integration between e-Government applications and SWS is not an easy task. The authors argued that a...
Two ageing processes are happening in West European economies that have profound implications for the development of innovations and entrepreneurship in Europe. The first is the demographic trend common in most industrialised countries of an aging population. The second is the firms that were started as enterprising new companies some...
One of UK's biggest pension funds, the Universities Superannuation Scheme USS, has merged with the Open University scheme creating a total membership of more than 200,000. One of UK's biggest pension funds, the Universities Superannuation Scheme USS, has merged with the Open University scheme...
Studying recent literature, a person gets the impression that many authors expect the introduction and utilization of Enterprise Resource Planning ERP to result in radical changes. Concentrating on the roles and the position of the controller, the person aims to answer the question whether this expectation comes true in practice....
Knowledge-based industries such as biotechnology have come to represent the new age in place of capital based industries such as steel which represented the industrial age. Moreover, changes in technology, transport, and deregulation have opened up economic competition onto a global scale. As a result, players have to abide by...
While much of a company's explicit knowledge can be found in text repositories, current content management systems only provide limited capabilities for structuring and making sense of documents. In the emerging Semantic Web, however, some of the traditional document search, interpretation and aggregation problems can be addressed by ontology-based semantic...
Sustained competitive advantage depends heavily on the ability of organizations to internalize the benefits of innovative activities. While the vital importance of innovation in today's competitive climate has been widely proclaimed, the understanding of innovative behavior in service organizations is not yet fully developed. This article documents an interpretative approach...
A new website has been launched recently at www.ouw.co.uk where over 2,500 Open University OU books, videos, audiocassettes, CD-ROMs and study packs can be searched and bought online.
This white paper provides information about Banks and its operating function which involves transfer savings to users, transform maturities, amounts and currencies, and perform services. The paper further reveals that Bank activities are subjected to solvency liquidity, profitability. The paper also gives an insight that bank operation is dependent on...
According to IINA, Dr. Yunus Amru, Rector of the Jerusalem Open University has disclosed that Saudi Arabia has approved the opening of a wing of the university in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He said this move would enable the Palestinians community According to IINA,...
The research reported in this paper assesses the success of collaboration agreements through changes in competitive strength rather than the longevity of the transactions or the formality and visible structure of the agreements. To establish competitive strength, as development and renewal of capabilities, the research proceeds through a review of...
This paper is a first attempt at modeling the long-term dynamics of market structure and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry in a history-friendly way. The model examines the relationships between the nature of the search space, demand, the patterns of competition, and industry evolution in the age of random screening...
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