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New study released – Socio-economic impact of open service innovation

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/item-detail-dae.cfm?item_id=7195

This study assesses the economic and societal potential and impact of open service innovation approach in Europe. The study is coordinated and led by Logica business consulting. The consortium consists of IBM, Nokia, Intel, Novay and Innovation Value Institute. The study considers the role of users and citizens in open, user-driven service innovation, as part of the industrial eco-system, in the context of societal and ICT developments.

Free IBM RedGuides about Smarter Planet topics

This IBM® Redguide™ publication is the first paper in the Smarter Cities™ Series of Redguide publications. This particular guide provides insight into the IBM Smarter Cities vision and explains how information and technology can help make cities smarter. It focuses on the foundation that is used to build a smarter city. It also explains how data and information found at all levels of the city are critical to understanding and making good decisions for the city and its citizens. This guide delves into the issues around data including the sharing of information and ensuring that individual and business data is secured. It also provides a high-level architecture and ideas that will help in the transformation of cities.

see this web site:  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4733.html?Open

AND MORE…

This series of Redguide publications is intended for IT architects and city officials who are interested in identifying ways to make their city smarter. This series includes the following guides, which will be available soon:

  • Smarter Cities Series: Introducing the IBM City Operations and Management Solution, REDP-4734
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Efficient Buildings, REDP-4735
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Water Management, REDP-4736
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Traffic Management, REDP-4737
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Public Safety, REDP-4738
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Energy Innovation, REDP-4739

 

Carnegie Mellon Speaker series

The Interdisciplinarian (article)

From the March/April issue of ASEE’s PRISM

see the National Foundation Director, Subra Suresh, talk about tearing down barriers to research collaboration

http://www.prism-magazine.org/mar-apr11/feature_01.cfm

(*American Society for Engineering Education)

Linking academic research to business opportunity

Free courseware (Transforming Engineering Education)

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Download this kit containing course material, example labs, and related textbooks to teach students in the classroom or lab.

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Academic Product Manager
National Instruments

Service Science INFORMS sponsorship – contribute scholarly articles

The <<Service Science: http://www.sersci.com/ServiceScience/>> team is working extremely hard in pursuit of receiving its full INFORMS sponsorship. If done successfully, all papers (including previously published papers) will be archived as INFORMS publications.

I understand that we all are passionate about the fast development of Service Science. To ensure that we have good quality papers published in our next couple of issues, I sincerely invite you to contribute your scholarly research work to Service Science.

Please help invite your colleagues, friends, students, and others, who are interested in the service science research, development, practice, and education, to contribute their scholarly research work to Service Science..

Sincerely,

Robin Qiu

Cambridge Service Alliance

Consider joining the Cambridge Service Alliance on LinkedIN

a unique global alliance between leading businesses and universities. Founded by Cambridge University, in alliance with BAE Systems and IBM, the Alliance was formed in 2010 and is designed to bring together some of the world’s best firms and researchers devoted to delivering today the insights, education and approaches needed for the Complex Service Solutions of tomorrow.

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