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

Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed and Zahari Taha
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Shamsuddin Ahmed: UM - University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya
Zahari Taha: UMP - Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering and Management Technology, University Malaysia Pahang - Education

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Abstract: 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, expands the scope of industries in which a company must compete to achieve the competitive advantage. Information systems and technology allow companies to coordinate their activities in distant geographic locations [2]. IT is providing the infrastructure necessary to support the development of new collaboration forms among industry and education. Virtual research and development (R&D) teams represent one such relational form, one that could revolutionize the workplace and provide organizations with unprecedented levels of flexibility and responsiveness [3-4].

Keywords: Virtual R&D teams; Collaboration; virtual teams; SMEs; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2011
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Published, Academic Leadership Journal, 2011, 9, 4, 1-5

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