广东专业镇生产力促进中心发展战略SWOT研究

广东专业镇生产力促进中心在建设专业镇中小微企业服务平台,提升企业创新能力和促进产业转型升级方面发挥了重要作用。运用SWOT理论,分析广东专业镇生产力促进中心建设发展情况的优势、劣势和面临的机会、威胁,提出促进广东专业镇生产力促进中心建设发展战略选择,供政府决策参考。     

电子商务服务平台的创建策划——以十堰市商用车整车及汽车零部件产业集群为例

十堰市的主导产业是汽车产业,而且电子商务汽车外贸已经有了一定发展基础。建立国家商用车及关键零部件产业集群电子商务服务平台由十堰高新区汽车产业生产力促进中心承担建设,通过提出策划为十堰高新区汽车产业生产力促进中心建言献策。     

区域生产力促进中心体系的构建与区域特色经济发展

作为新型的科技中介服务体系,生产力促进中心在区域经济的发展建设中,有着不可替代的作用,是区域创新服务体系的重要组成部分。本文从区域特色经济的实质出发,探讨、提出了区域生产力促进中心体系的构建原则和推进措施。     

高新区创新中国——对20年国家高新区发展的总结评价及对未来发展的思考

中国国家高新区自创立已走过了20年,对我国经济社会发展和国家创新体系的建设做出了重要贡献。本文从经济、创新、产业、城市发展几个角度,系统评价了20年来,高新区对国家发展的促进作用,提出高新区已经或正在成为支撑国民经济持续增长、引领经济发展方式转变、构建国家创新体系、发展战略性新兴产业和推进现代城市建设的主体依靠力量。在新的发展中,国家高新区需要承担更大的责任与使命,也由此需要中央政府对高新区发展的导向和政策做新的调整。     

高新技术开发区创新体系生态质量评价研究—以湖北省高新区为实证

生态化的创新体系是高新区保持可持续发展的不竭动力,目前对创新体系的研究侧重在外部条件建设上,而高新区创新功能的形成是内生与外部条件结合的产物。本文采用创新生态,搭建出高新区创新体系生态质量评价体系,通过对湖北省内15个高新区实地调查获取数据,利用因子分析提取出创新生态体系建设的六个主要因素,即产业结构创新因子、知识创新因子、创新平台因子、创新资金因子、创新中介因子和创新环境因子。研究发现湖北高新区创新体系生态质量普遍不高,彼此差距甚大,且各高新区生态因子发展不均衡现象严重,并据此提出针对性完善生态因子质量的政策建议。     

对高新区创新体系的探讨和研究

高新区在建设和发展的过程中,尽管进行了一系列的创新实践和探索,取得了明显的经济效益和社会效益,受到了社会的关注,但还存在许多不尽如人意的地方.特别是近年来,新的形势对高新区的发展提出更高的要求,就全国而言,高新区普遍进入"二次创业”阶段,面对新形势、新要求,如何更好地把握机遇,迎接挑战,实现"两个转变”,是高新区的现实选择,而适时建设高新区的创新体系,已成为高新区可持续发展的必然选择.     

应对金融危机充分发挥科技中介作用 ——以贵阳生产力促进中心为例

生产力促进中心是国家科技创新体系的重要组成部分,生产力促进中心在推动中小企业创新发展,促进科技与经济结合,提高企业核心竞争力,发挥了重要的作用。尤其是在目前世界金融危机中,中小企业首当其冲受到影响,作为为中小企业提供综合服务的中介机构,生产力促进中心要充分发挥作用,帮助中小企业渡过难关,同时树立自己的品牌。     

完善广东新农村建设的科技支持体系对策思考

新农村建设需要强有力的科技支撑。科技支持体系的建立和完善,将是"十一五"期间广东新农村建设及广东农业转型和增长的首要因素和重要推力。文章从构建科学高效的农业科技创新体制等九大方面分析了完善广东新农村建设科技支持体系的对策。     

论区县级生产力促进中心在构建基层区域创新体系中的作用与发展措施

通过分析提出基层区域创新体系概念以及区县级生产力促进中心在在其中的作用,并简述了区县级生产力促进中心发展的不足,初步探讨区县级生产力促进中心在构建地方基层区域创新体系中的发展措施.     

西部生产力促进中心的社会作用和功能定位——以贵阳生产力促进中心10年史为例

生产力促进中心是国家科技创新体系的重要组成部分,全国生产力促进中心已成为我国科技中介服务的一面旗帜。总结贵阳生产力促进中心10年发展过程中确定的三大基本服务和三大特色服务以及所取得的成效,供依然存在核心业务不明确,服务能力不强的生产力促进中心,尤其是西部的生产力促进中心借鉴。     

Students' Reactions to the Introduction of Videoconferencing for Classroom Instruction

This study examined how students who had no prior experience with videoconferencing would react to the use of videoconferencing as an instructional medium. Students enrolled in seven different courses completed a questionnaire at the beginning of the semester and again at the end of the semester. Students at the origination and remote sites did not differ in their reactions toward videoconferencing but there was a significant difference for gender. Women reacted less favorably to videoconferencing. Compared to the beginning of the semester, students reported significantly less positive attitudes toward taking a course through videoconferencing at the end of the semester. There were no significant differences in students' attitudes toward videoconferencing across courses at the beginning of the semester but there were significant differences across the courses at the end of the semester. The results suggest the need for better preparation for both students and instructors.     

Cooler temperatures inductive to locust outbreaks

Ajoint study by Prof. ZHANG Zhibin from the CAS Institute of Zoology and his co-workers from Norway, US and Swiss have indicated that historical outbreaks of migratory locusts in China were associated with cold spells, suggesting that China＇s projected climate warming could decrease the pest＇s numbers. The study was published in Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences on 17 September, 2007.     

Exploring Multiplexity: Social Network Structures in a Computer-Supported Distance Learning Class

A computer-mediated group is a complex entity whose members exchange many types of information via multiple means of communication in pursuit of goals specific to their environment. Over time, they coordinate technical features of media with locally enacted use to achieve a viable working arrangement. To explore this complex interaction, a case study is presented of the social networks of interactions and media use among members of a class of computer-supported distance learners. Results show how group structures associated with project teams dominated who communicated with whom, about what, and via which media over the term, and how media came to occupy their own communication niches: Webboard for diffuse class-wide communication; Internet Relay Chat more to named others but still for general communication across the class; and e-mail primarily for intrateam communication. Face-to-face interaction, occurring only during a short on-campus session, appears to have had a catalytic effect on social and emotional exchanges. Results suggest the need to structure exchanges to balance class-wide sharing of ideas with subgroup interactions that facilitate project completion, and to provide media that support these two modes of interaction.     

Low doses of a red wine ingredient figh diabetes in mice

Aresearch group led by Prof. ZHAI Qiwei from the Institute for Nutritional Sciences under the CAS Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences has discovered that even relatively low doses of resveratrol--a chemical found in the skins of red grapes and in red wine--can improve the sensitivity of mice to the hormone insulin, according to a report in the October,2007 issue of Cell Metabolism. As insulin resistance is often characterized as the most critical factor contributing to the development of Type 2 diabetes, the findings“provide a potential new therapeutic approach for preventing or treating” both conditions, the researchers said.     

The Role of Intermediating Institutions in the Diffusion of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): How Industry Associations Intervened in Denmark, Finland, and Hong Kong

Electronic data interchange (EDI) provides means for interorganizational communication, creates network externalities, requires an advanced information technology (IT) infrastructure, and relies on standards. In the diffusion of such innovations, institutional involvement is imperative. Such institutions contain governmental agencies, national and global standardization organizations, local government, and nonprofit private organizations like industry associations. The last type of organizations we call intermediating institutions. They intermediate or coordinate ("inscribe") the activities of a group of would-be adopters. Unfortunately, little is known of how these organizations shape the EDI diffusion trajectory. In this article we examine one specific type of intermediating organizations?industry associations?and how they advanced the EDI diffusion process in the grocery sectors of Hong Kong, Denmark and Finland. We identify six institutional measures, placed into a matrix formed by the mode of involvement (influence vs. regulation) and the type of diffusion force (supply push vs. demand pull), that can be mobilized to further the EDI diffusion. Industry associations were found to be active users of all these measures to varying degrees. Their role was critical especially in knowledge building, knowledge deployment, and standard setting. Furthermore, institutional involvement varied due to policy and cultural contingencies and power dependencies.     

How Electronic Publishers are Protecting Against Piracy: Doubts About Technical Systems of Protection

The increasing prospects of digital piracy has prompted the perceived need by electronic publishers to adopt technical systems of protection, and governments to reform their copyright laws. This article is a preliminary study of the management of intellectual property by electronic publishers, defined as those involved in the production of online databases, and CD-ROMs. It focuses on three main issues: (1) how electronic publishers view the increasing threat of piracy; (2) the methods of protection employed to protect intellectual property in digital format; and (3) the importance of technological protection of intellectual property in electronic publications. The analysis is based on a sample of 23 UK electronic publishers. The interviews revealed an interesting assortment of protection methods and did not show that technological protection was a preferred way. Instead, the means of protection, in addition to copyright law, comprised niche markets, pricing, trust, bad publicity, and nontechnical and technical means.     

Rough Justice: A Statistical Assessment of ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy

Long-standing conflict between domain name registrants and trademark holders prompted the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to create a global, mandatory arbitration procedure known as the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The UDRP has been used in 2166 cases involving 3938 domain names as of 1 November 2000. The policy gives the initiator of a complaint, generally a trademark holder, the right to choose which ICANN-accredited dispute resolution service provider (RSP) will handle the case. During the preparation of the UDRP,some feared that complainant selection would lead to "forum shopping" that might bias the results. This article performs a statistical assessment of the forum-shopping thesis and finds support for it. There are statistically significant differences in the various RSPs' propensity to take away names from defendants; there are also major differences in the number of cases brought to each RSP. RSPs who take away names have the larger share of cases. The study examines other variables that might explain differences in market share, such as price, the plaintiff's nationality, or the time taken to decide a case. It finds that nationality and time also are correlated with market share. The study concludes that shopping for a favorable outcome is an important factor in the UDRP.     

Prevalence of soft neurological signs in Chinese people

Prof. Raymond C.K. Chen, a neuropsychologist with the CAS Institute of Psychology, has made novel progress in his studies of schizophrenia. His work has been reported by a recent issue of Behavioural Neurology.     

Molecular motor assembly of a biomimetic system

Active biological molecules and functional structures can be fabricated into a bio-mimetic system by using molecular assembly method. Such materials can be used for the drug delivery, disease diagnosis and therapy, and new nanodevice construction.     

Our Own Devices: Heterotopic Communication, Discourse, and Culture in the Information Society 1

The main premise of this article is that in information societies generally, and in virtual social contexts particularly, a distinctive style of interaction to facilitate the communication of difference, heterotopic communication , has emerged. It rests on two cultural foundations: an ideological belief in the positive, socially integrating power of communication, and a prevailing ethic of instrumental rationality, subjective individualism, and strategically practiced self-interest. The former is demonstrated by the use of simulation and spectacle as sources of information; exhibitionism/voyeurism as a communicative style; and the awareness of surveillance. The latter is seen in the competitive use of knowledge as a commodity; a surface globalism masking deep parochialism; lateral as well as vertical information inequity; and the use of public versus private as strategies for engagement rather than as spaces. Those who engage in heterotopic communication resort to their 'own devices' both in the sense of personal agendas, strategies, interests, and interpretations, and in the form of the telecommunication tools that help realize them. These personal and technological devices allow individuals with the right educational and technical resources to avoid exposure to disagreement, difference, or other information that does not serve their direct purposes or reflect their particular views of the world; yet they also help convey the appearance of openness, availability, and cooperation. This style of interaction is used strategically in combination with information and communication technologies to gain social or economic advantages, but it may encourage social separatism and parochialism, inhibit the negotiation of disputes, and emphasize competing interests.