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

Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid and Zahari Taha

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Abstract: In this paper, we present our more than two years research experiences on virtual R&D teams in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and draws conclusions, giving special attention to the structure of virtual teams required to support education-industry collaboration. We report the relevant results of an online survey study. The online questionnaire was emailed by using a simple random sampling method to 947 manufacturing SMEs. The findings of this study show that SMEs in Malaysia and Iran are willing to use virtual teams for collaboration and the platform for industry-education collaboration is ready and distance between team members or differences in time zones, are not barriers to industry-education collaborations.

Keywords: Collaboration; virtual teams; SMEs; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 L1 L15 L17 M1 M11 M12 O1 O3 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-06, Revised 2010-07-28
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Published in In: 2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education (ICEED 2010), 8th - 9th December Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (2010): pp. 7-9

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