International Conference on Science, Technology, Higher Education, and Society in the Conceptual Age

July 5-7, 2011 Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland www.sthesca.eu Organized by the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland In collaboration with University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA, and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea This unique Conference is dedicated to a celebration of the Polish Presidency of the European Union Objective The main objective of …

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Job notice at Masaryk University in Brno

Our faculty opens a new position of Assoc. Prof. at the Department of Computer Systems and Communication for the Service Science, Management, and Engineering study branch. It is expected to substitute me in the position of SSME study field leader in 3 or 4 years. Of course I will continue in work in SSME both …

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MIT Engineering Systems Division faculty job post

ESD Faculty Position MIT Engineering Systems Division The MIT Engineering Systems Division (ESD) invites applications for a tenure track faculty position. ESD includes over 60 faculty, has the 4th largest graduate population of any department or division at MIT, and focuses on important global challenges: http://esd.mit.edu/about/strategic-report.html. This position will focus on applying engineering systems methodologies …

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CFP: JSIS Special Issue on Service Management & Engineering: Aligning Business & IT Services

The Journal of Strategic Information Systems http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jsis IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 1st of March 2011 Target publication date of special issue: 3rd quarter of 2011 MOTIVATION AND SUGGESTED TOPICS An increasing number of activities of public and private organizations are engineered and managed as services, often creating a new potential for economic growth and welfare …

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Expediting University Startups: A Step Toward Advancing America’s Prosperity

BY Joseph DeSimone http://www.kauffman.org/Expediting-University-Startups-A-Step-Toward-Advancing-America%E2%80%99s-Prosperity.aspx?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Opticast&utm_campaign=Ideas_At_Work_08_2010 universities are major employers of regions (especially great universities in great cities) universities often have science and technology parks, with business incubators universities often have medical centers and hospitals, or a life science complex university faculty highly prioritize education for their children, and so affiliated high schools and elementary schools are …

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NY Times article supports shared service

Academic Bankruptcy By MARK C. TAYLOR Published: August 14, 2010 WITH the academic year about to begin, colleges and universities, as well as students and their parents, are facing an unprecedented financial crisis. What we’ve seen with California’s distinguished state university system — huge cutbacks in spending and a 32 percent rise in tuition — …

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