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Selected Abstracts

Data Preparation for Real-time High Quality Rendering of Complex Models

COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM, Issue 3 2006
Reinhard Klein
The capability of current 3D acquisition systems to digitize the geometry reflection behaviour of objects as well as the sophisticated application of CAD techniques lead to rapidly growing digital models which pose new challenges for interaction and visualization. Due to the sheer size of the geometry as well as the texture and reflection data which are often in the range of several gigabytes, efficient techniques for analyzing, compressing and rendering are needed. In this talk I will present some of the research we did in our graphics group over the past years motivated by industrial partners in order to automate the data preparation step and allow for real-time high quality rendering e.g. in the context of VR-applications. Strength and limitations of the different techniques will be discussed and future challenges will be identified. The presentation will go along with live demonstrations. [source]

Process Development in Biotechnology , A Re-Evaluation

ENGINEERING IN LIFE SCIENCES (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2005
K. Schügerl
Abstract This review considers some process development problems in biotechnology and presents examples of solutions, which were developed in cooperation with industrial partners. These processes include the production of restriction endonuclease EcoRI by recombinant Escherichia coli, which is toxic to the cell, penicillin V by Penicillium chrysogenum, xylanase by Aspergillus awamori, cephalosporin C by Acremonium chrysogenum, erythritol by Moniliella tomentosa var pollinis, and alkaline serine protease by Bacillus licheniformis. Special attention is given to the practical aspects of product development. [source]

Reflexive Evaluation of an Academic,Industry Research Collaboration: Can Mode 2 Management Research be Achieved?

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, Issue 5 2009
Nathalie Mitev
abstract We present a reflexive retrospective account of a UK government research council funded project deploying knowledge management software to support environmental sustainability in the construction industry. This project was set up in a form typical of a Mode 2 research programme involving several academic institutions and industrial partners, and aspiring to fulfil the Mode 2 criteria seen as transdisciplinarity and business relevance. The multidisciplinary nature is analysed through retrospectively reflecting upon the research process and activities we carried out, and is found to be problematic. No real consensus was reached between the partners on the ,context of application'. Difficulties between industry and academia, within industry and within academia led to diverging agendas and different alignments for participants. The context of application does not (pre-)exist independently of institutional influences, and in itself cannot drive transdisciplinarity since it is subject to competing claims and negotiations. There were unresolved tensions in terms of private vs. public construction companies and their expectations of ICT-based knowledge management, and in terms of the sustainable construction agenda. This post hoc reflexive account, enables us to critique our own roles in having developed a managerial technology for technically sophisticated and powerful private industrial actors to the detriment of public sector construction partners, having bypassed sustainability issues, and not reached transdisciplinarity. We argue that this is due to institutional pressures and instrumentalization from academia, industry and government and a restricted notion of business relevance. There exists a politically motivated tendency to oppose Mode 1 academic research to practitioner-oriented Mode 2 approaches to management research. We argue that valuing the links between co-existing Mode 1 and 2 research activities would support a more genuine and fuller exploration of the context of application. [source]

B-KIDE: a framework and a tool for business process-oriented knowledge infrastructure development

KNOWLEDGE AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT: THE JOURNAL OF CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION, Issue 3 2005
Markus Strohmaier
The need for an effective management of knowledge is gaining increasing recognition in today's economy. To acknowledge this fact, new promising and powerful technologies have emerged from industrial and academic research. With these innovations maturing, organizations are increasingly willing to adapt such new knowledge management technologies to improve their knowledge-intensive businesses. However, the successful application in given business contexts is a complex, multidimensional challenge and a current research topic. Therefore, this contribution addresses this challenge and introduces a framework for the development of business process-supportive, technological knowledge infrastructures. While business processes represent the organizational setting for the application of knowledge management technologies, knowledge infrastructures represent a concept that can enable knowledge management in organizations. The B-KIDE Framework introduced in this work provides support for the development of knowledge infrastructures that comprise innovative knowledge management functionality and are visibly supportive of an organization's business processes. The developed B-KIDE Tool eases the application of the B-KIDE Framework for knowledge infrastructure developers. Three empirical studies that were conducted with industrial partners from heterogeneous industry sectors corroborate the relevance and viability of the introduced concepts. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Doing Homogeneous Catalysis between Basic Research and Application

CHEMIE-INGENIEUR-TECHNIK (CIT), Issue 8 2006
M. BellerArticle first published online: 3 AUG 200
Abstract Recent achievements in applied homogeneous catalysis are described. Special focus is given on the development of novel palladium catalysts which are of industrial interest for the synthesis of bulk and fine chemicals. Most of the reported work has been done in an intensive collaboration between the Degussa AG (DHC) and the Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e.V. The clear vision of the goal and a close interaction of basic research and applied catalysis have led to a fast development from the initial discovery to the upscaling of the ligands. Such a combination of know how from academic and industrial partners will provide the basis for further innovations in catalysis in future. [source]