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

Nader Ale Ebrahim (1) , Shamsuddin Ahmed (1) , Zahari Taha (2)

1 UM - University of Malaya = Universiti Malaya [Kuala Lumpur, Malaisie]
2 UMP - Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering and Management Technology, University Malaysia Pahang

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].

Mots clés: Virtual R&D teams; Collaboration; virtual teams; SMEs; Education

Domaines: Gestion et management; Education

Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha. Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration. Academic Leadership Journal, 2011, 9 (4), pp.1-5. ⟨hal-00690028⟩