Leveraging Investments in Higher Education R&D
Prof. Margaret Dalziel will examine the state of knowledge and international best practices on measuring the impact of investments in higher education R&D in a comparative review funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Industry Canada.
“A combination of high performance in higher education R&D on one hand, and low levels of business expenditures on R&D and waning productivity on the other, is driving interest in leveraging investments in higher education R&D to stimulate innovation and economic growth,” says Dalziel, an associate professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at the Telfer School of Management.
“To date Canada has limited experience in assessing the impact of university-industry knowledge transfer. The focus on developing valid and reliable measures of that impact comes in response to limited government resources and ever-increasing concerns for accountability.”
Dalziel will use a $17,500 SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant to examine the outcomes of various jurisdictions in terms of measuring the impact of investments in higher education R&D in innovation-related and economic terms. She will report her findings at the upcoming Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences [This link is no longer available] (May 26-June 2 in Waterloo, Ontario).
The author of several articles on university-industry technology transfer, innovation intermediaries and their impact, Dalziel in 2012 will serve on a Council of Canadian Academies expert panel [This link is no longer available] on measuring the socio-economic benefits of investments in innovations.
Telfer School Welcomes Post-Doctoral Researcher in e-Commerce
Huang Zhao is pursuing a post-doctoral research fellowship focusing on influence in online social networks. Working with Professor Morad Benyoucef in his lab, Dr. Zhao conducts a research on the social and website design features necessary for social commerce design.
Dr. Zhao is an expert on the development of credibility guidelines for e-government website design. He received a PhD in informative systems and computing at Brunel University in the U.K. before coming to the Telfer School.
Visiting Scholar Conducted Research on the Management of IT at Telfer
Professor Geneviève Bassellier of the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University served as visiting professor at the invitation of Telfer Professor Muriel Mignerat.
Professor Bassellier’s research examines the management of information technologies. She explores the dynamics between IT professionals and their business clients, and the role of senior management in IT strategic initiatives. She is also interested in how organizations can best leverage their intellectual capital through knowledge adoption from online knowledge communities, knowledge integration in geographically dispersed teams, and knowledge requirements in the context of outsourcing.
During her time at the Telfer School, Dr. Bassellier presented a paper titled Can Social Media Redefine the Online Music Industry? A Look at Shared Social Responsibility and Shared Value as part of the 2011-2012 Telfer School’s Management Research Seminar Series.
Professors Mehdi Zahaf and Leila Hamzaoui-Essoussi Launch New Website for their Research Project on Organic Foods
Organics: Opportunities and Challenges
“Organics” is a new Telfer School website focused on the marketing of organic foods. Professor Leila Hamzaoui-Essoussi and Professor Mehdi Zahaf have been working on the organic foods topic for several years now. They therefore took the initiative to create this website and are using it as a communication interface to share information with the academic/business public and the general public.
The topics covered include general information about organic food, market trends, distribution issues, price structure, and many other interesting issues.
Your comments are welcome! “Organics” has a blog component embedded in it.
Check it out and share it: www.telfer.uOttawa.ca/organics
Performance Management in Service Oriented Virtual Organizations
Congratulations to Telfer professors Bijan Raahemi (supervisor) and Greg Richards (co-supervisor), and Seyed Mohammad Amin Kamali, MSc candidate in Systems Science at the University of Ottawa, who were awarded a Mitacs-Accelerate Graduate Internship grant. The one-year project, entitled Design and Implementation of a Framework for Performance Management in Service Oriented Virtual Organizations (SOVO PM), is sponsored by IBM Canada Ltd.
This project focuses on the design and implementation of performance management in service-oriented virtual organizations (SOVOs), including a structural and a procedural framework for SOVO performance measurement and management. The proposed framework will be implemented in a prototype model using IBM tools including Websphere business process manager, Websphere Business Monitor, Tivoli, and Cognos BI.
“Mitacs-Accelerate is Canada’s premiere research internship program. It connects companies with over 50 research-based universities through graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, who apply their specialized expertise to business research challenges. Interns transfer their skills from theory to real-world application, while the companies gain a competitive advantage by accessing high-quality research expertise.” (Source: www.mitacs.ca/accelerate).
