Empirical trials and evaluation of an industry/academia collaborative agent system supporting the launch of new enterprises

Mitsuru Kodama, Hideo Ohira, Taichi Kawakami, Atsushi Kaneko and Toru Suzuki

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, 2004, vol. 1, issue 2, 136-154

Abstract: The development of skills among individuals in society is essential to the creation of a new business. Information systems utilising information technology (IT) foster the sharing of new information and knowledge, transcending the limitations of time and space, and offer possibilities in generating new knowledge innovations. In this paper, we describe our development of an industry/academia collaborative agent system aimed at developing individual skills and creating new business innovations for promoting the launch of new enterprises, and the empirical trials we conducted using synchronicity and asynchronicity in the combined use of a videoconferencing system and the internet aimed at mutual and self study and information collection activities concerning the provision of management information content and starting an enterprise. Through these trials, along with clarifying the validity of synchronous distance learning in promoting collaborative learning for busy working people, we clarified the importance to asynchronous distance learning of a framework for the active exchange of information from human resources and the latest learning information utilising mailing lists and other means.

Keywords: collaborative agent system; knowledge sharing; distance learning; videoconferencing; new enterprises. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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