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Will automation pose a threat to jobs or will it deliver net social and economic benefits?

Frank pursues research at the intersection of management sciences and business (micro) economics and has a keen interest in entrepreneurship.

Toggle navigation. Toggle navigation. Research Areas. Publications. SME innovation - practice and needs, lessons from the PrISMS programme.

Businesses are increasingly looking to sell services rather than products as they respond to strategic, economic and even environmental factors. ... This can be for strategic reasons, where companies have to innovate to create value; economic reasons,

The expectation is to fund up to five projects of up to a maximum value of £50,000 at full Economic Cost (fEC), with funding to be awarded at 80% fEC.

We ended up with two separate competitions judged on different criteria: one was about commercial impact and the other triple bottom line (economic, environmental and social) impact.

supply chain management and the economic downturn. ... Monday 1 July 2013. The IfM hosted a talk by Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, on ‘Linking science, engineering and economics – a progressive capitalism

Platts K.W., Probert D.R. and Cáñez L.E., (2000), "Make vs.Buy Decisions: A Process and a Case"11th International Working Seminar on Production Economics, 21-15 February 2000. ... Snaddon, D.R. and Probert, D.R., (1999), 'A theory for industrial

As follow up to HRH’s visit Shaikh Mohammed Bin Essa Al-Khalifa the chief executive of the economic development board of Bahrain, accompanied by Mr Kamal Ahmed, chief operating officer,

Sheshinski, E. (1967) "Tests of the Learning by Doing Hypothesis", Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. ... 41-53. Terwiesch, C. and Bohn, R. E. (2001) "Learning and Process Improvement during Production Ramp-Up", International Journal of Production

It is unique in the UK in being based within science and engineering base and employs researchers with both technical and economics/management expertise. ... Ultimately through its university-business leadership network NCUB seeks to provide a collective

Lessons learned from before, during and after each event are recorded and synthesised with other events, and will be collated and analysed towards the end of the project in 2021.

He will also discuss the most common types of barriers to technology deployment—including people, organisational, technical, market, economic/financial, and regulatory/policy—evident across sectors, and examples of how policy

It is the batching implicitly followed in basic MRP. 'EBQ' stands for Economic Batch Quantity.

Toggle navigation. Toggle navigation. People. High Speed Laser Cutting. High speed laser cutting offers substantial economic benefits to the manufacturing sector.

the economic downturn.

His work at the interface of science, engineering, economics, management and public policy continues to inspire researchers today. ... Of particular note is Babbage’s scientific approach to studying the economics of emerging manufacturing activities,

Oughton, D., L. Mortara and T. Minshall (2012). Managing asymmetric relationships in open innovation: lessons from multinational companies and SMEs.

development and commercialisation of quantum technologies to identify value to society and contribute to economic growth. ... New business models are essential to unlocking the economic growth potential of digital technologies, and offer a way out of

IQAM is an EPSRC funded project that aims to develop a methodology and tool to quantify and optimise information quality in the context of asset management to improve the economic sustainability

Second, with growth limited, the economics of the focused factory strategy presented them with an unattractive choice: either reduce variety further or accept the higher costs of broader product lines. ... old plants to gain economies of scale; or focus

Make Competences in Small and Medium Enterprises". 16th International Working Seminar on Production Economics. ... In: 15th International Working Seminar on Production Economics, 3-3-2008 to 7-3-2008, Innsbruck, Austria.

session at the recent World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos. ... The session was part of the Augmented Workforce Initiative. With his team Thomas Bohné co-founded and is co-leading the Augmented Workforce Initiative in collaboration with

Hugo, O. and Garnsey, E. (2004), 'Problem-Solving and Competence Creation in New Firms', Managerial and Decision Economics, vol 26 pp 139-148. ... Production Economics 77 (2002) pp247-257. Fraser, P., Moultrie, J. and Gregory, M.

If it is to achieve its economic potential, the research, commercial and legislative communities need to share a vision of the way forward. ... The challenge is to bring these different communities together to develop a clear sense of direction that will

SME innovation – practice and needs, lessons from the PrISMS programme. ... The Intellectual Property Business Model (IP-BM) - Lessons from ARM Plc..

Digitalisation for sustainable growth. In alignment with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which underlines the immense potential of digitalisation as an enabler of sustainable economic growth, this initiative forms part

Given the interdisciplinary nature of IP, this course brings together thinking from engineering, management, law and economics.

those that will have the most significant economic and social impact.

High speed laser cutting offers substantial economic benefits to the manufacturing sector.

Seventeenth International Working Seminar on Production Economics. Innsbruck, Austria. Zhao, Y. ... 17th International Working Seminar on Production Economics. Innsbruck. Maine, E, S.

2017: San Francisco / Silicon Valley, investigating:. Compare and contrast technical, organisational, economic and social aspects of industrial companies in San Francisco and other companies elsewhere in the world.

In the UK, the government has placed manufacturing at the heart of plans for economic recovery.

We open with two articles on policy, featuring a recent high-profile IfM report on why manufacturing is significantly underestimated in economic size, as well as a report on the impact ... How much does manufacturing really matter to the UK’s economic

8th International Working Seminar on Production Economics, Feb. 25-28. Austria. Mills, J. ... Gregory, M. J. (1993). "Integrated Performance Measurement - a review of current practice and emerging trends." International Journal of Production Economics

However, service companies account for 75 per cent of economic activity in developed economies, and even product companies incorporate elements of service into their business.

Twelfth International Working Seminar on Production Economics, Igls/Innsbruck, Austria, 3. Platts, K. ... Efstathiou (2002). Measuring Complex Systems. Seminar series London School of Economics - complexity group, London.

whether PSS align economic and ecologic behaviour). Project partners include the Institute for Innovation Research (Kiel University), Institute for Technology and Innovation Management (Hamburg University of Technology - TUHH) and the Centre

Highlights of the meeting included:. All the partners reaffirmed the importance of collaborating with existing initiatives on smart local energy systems and smart grid pilots to build upon their lessons learned

To ensure economic viability, helium recycling was employed. CGDM process schematic.

Rezvani, A., Jafari, M., Kemensis, W., Parlikad, A.K., “Towards Closing the Loop between Infrastructure Investments and Societal and Economic Impacts”, The Engineering Economist, Volume 60, Issue 4, pp. ... International Journal of Production

In our news section, you can find recent updates, including our participation in the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos and some of our latest report launches.

The project, which has recently held its final meeting in Cambridge, has explored how open innovation can be used to increase the social and economic value created from research. ... Co-coaching: workshops moderated by two facilitators: a knowledge

Toggle navigation. Toggle navigation. Events. Projects. Project areas. Through an initial consultation with key stakeholders involved in developing government policies and funding programmes, a number of key project areas were identified, including:.

You only have that opportunity once. It also teaches you some other very valuable lessons such as that just because you’ve been to university doesn’t make you any cleverer

Universities and Business – investigates the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ability of universities to contribute to innovation through the crisis and into the economic recovery. ... Marshall continued: “Maintaining these types of innovation

InterAct is a £4.4 million, Made Smarter Innovation-funded, Economic and Social Research Council-led network that aims to bring together economic and social scientists, UK manufacturers and digital technology

Economic and Business Minister, Ian Pearson, and former Minister for Science and Innovation Lord David Sainsbury, both addressed the guests and praised the work of the IfM during its first 10

Many people associate increasing sustainability with expense, but in fact, environmental and economic efficiencies are often aligned.

Complexity and Co-Evolution: Continuity and Change in Socio-Economic Systems.