On the path of enterprise science?: An approach to establishing the correspondence of theory and reality in technology-intensive companies

International Journal of Technology Management

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 405-428

  Tschirky, Hugo ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH Center for Enterprise Science   (Switzerland)

^c GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^d Carl Zeiss AG   (Switzerland)

^e Siemens Schweiz AG   (Switzerland)

^f TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0033693779     PISSN: 02675730     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1504/ijtm.2000.002875     Document Type: Article

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70. For example in relation to the content of enterprise policy (including normative statements concerning the value of a technology orientation) state of company culture (ability to change).
71. For example in relation to the content of business strategies (as integrated product/technology market strategy) setup and process structure, organizational learning competence.
72. For example the content and management of projects and assignments (e.g., Simultaneous Engineering) the structuring of formal and informal communication (e.g., minimal 'organizational' and physical distance between R&D, Marketing and Production).
73. For example the creation of a controlling system which, above and beyond accounting figures and facts, pursues and interprets just-as-high-priority, important technology requirements (such as progress in the development of core technologies); the supporting values of organizational learning behaviour; and management features of the cultural/work-psychological company environment.
74. Which, for example, takes into account the intraorganizational cultural diversity of the research, development and marketing areas.
75. The ETH Zurich is at present structured into Departments and Divisions. The Departments, which are allocated a body of personnel, financial and infrastructure resources, firstly carry out the research task of the ETH Zurich. Secondly, with the same resources, they carry out the university's teaching task, which is formally structured into course-specific Divisions.
76. 'Poly projects' are directed ETH Zurich research projects, in which several institutes and thereby various research directions are involved.