Suzhou-style Embroidery： Progress through Innovation

Over decades Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute has involved itself in a plethora of exchange events and exhibitions, with an aim to promote Chinese traditions,expand international exchange and enhance the friendship with the rest of the world. Its embroidery works have been on display in more than 100 countries across the world and widely acclaimed by foreign viewers who call Suzhou-style embroidery ＂freasure from the East＂,     

Festival of China Enhances China-Nepal Ties

From October 10 to 17, the Festival of China 2009 was held in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal. This one-week biennial celebration, initiated in 2003, aims to ＂promote culturaland art exchange between the two countries, facilitate friendship between the two people and enhance friendly neighborhood＂. This fourth session, with the theme of ＂experience the charm of Nantong＂, was jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of China, the Government of Jiangsu Province and the Chinese Embassy in Nepal. Diverse events were launched during the festival, including performances, trade fairs, fashion shows, exhibitions, food fairs and film showcases.     

Boundary-Work in the Health Research Field: Biomedical and Clinician Scientists’ Perceptions of Social Science Research

Funding agencies in Canada are attempting to break down the organizational boundaries between disciplines to promote interdisciplinary research and foster the integration of the social sciences into the health research field. This paper explores the extent to which biomedical and clinician scientists’ perceptions of social science research operate as a cultural boundary to the inclusion of social scientists into this field. Results indicated that cultural boundaries may impede social scientists’ entry into the health research field through three modalities: (1) biomedical and clinician scientists’ unfavourable and ambivalent posture towards social science research; (2) their opposition to a resource increase for the social sciences; and (3) clinician scientists procedural assessment criteria for social science. The paper also discusses the merits and limitations of Tom Gieryn’s concept of boundary-work for studying social dynamics within the field of science.

Rethinking Polanyi’s Concept of Tacit Knowledge: From Personal Knowing to Imagined Institutions

Half a century after Michael Polanyi conceptualised ‘the tacit component’ in personal knowing, management studies has reinvented ‘tacit knowledge’—albeit in ways that squander the advantages of Polanyi’s insights and ignore his faith in ‘spiritual reality’. While tacit knowing challenged the absurdities of sheer objectivity, expressed in a ‘perfect language’, it fused rational knowing, based on personal experience, with mystical speculation about an un-experienced ‘external reality’. Faith alone saved Polanyi’s model from solipsism. But Ernst von Glasersfeld’s radical constructivism provides scope to rethink personal tacit knowing with regard to ‘other people’ and the intersubjectively viable construction of ‘experiential reality’. By separating tacit knowing from Polanyi’s metaphysical realism and drawing on Benedict Anderson’s concept of ‘imagined communities’, it is possible to conceptualise ‘imagined institutions’ as the tacit dimension of power that shapes human interaction. Whereas Douglass North claimed institutions could be reduced to rules, imagined institutions are known in ways we cannot tell.     

“难得壶徒”周荣金

在前后两届全国十大紫砂名壶评选中,前一届他以作品《云开旭日照苍松》跻身其中,这一届又以《梅竹提梁壶》中奖,连续两届获此殊荣,实属不易。此人名叫周荣金,40多岁,已是宜兴紫砂工艺二厂的高级工艺美术师。难怪壶艺泰斗吕尧臣给他题词：“难得壶徒”;另一位壶艺大师谭泉海为他题词：“扬紫艺为荣,捏砂泥成金”;评上全国十大能工巧匠的徐安碧以书相赠：“砂海人才济济,壶徒别有创意”。这些题词既是对年轻有为的周荣金的评价,又是对他的激励。     

Broadway productions and the value of a Tony Award

This article investigates the effect of a Tony nomination or win on the demand facing a Broadway production using a panel of weekly revenues for Broadway productions from 1996 to 2007. Our results indicate that the effect of a nomination or win is positive in the week of the announcement and gradually increases in successive weeks, presumably due to publicity and word-of-mouth. Winners experience an increase in demand as late as 1 year later when awards are publicized for the following season. Moreover, nominees that do not win the award are penalized heavily in the weeks following the Award announcements. We find that winning a Tony Award increases a production’s revenues by 12% in the week immediately following the Awards.

Revealed word-of-mouth demand and adaptive supply: survival of motion pictures at the Australian box office

This study considers a frailty duration approach to modelling the life-length of a sample of 360 films that went into wide release at the Australian box office from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2005. The analysis extends previous research by considering a range of film-specific covariates relating to distribution, production, consumer signals, and weekly performance. In particular, it is shown that film success (defined in a duration context) responds to previewing, advertising, critical reviews, and US box office—but not to production budget, star power or opening-week screens. The study also reveals that it is appropriate to account for unobservable heterogeneity between films in the choice of empirical methodology.     

Towards a Culture of Application: Science and Decision Making at the National Institute of Standards &; Technology

How does the research performed by a government mission agency contribute to useable technologies for its constituents? Is it possible to incorporate science policy mechanisms for increasing benefits to users in the decision process? The United States National Institute of Standards &; Technology (NIST) promises research directed towards industrial application. This paper considers the processes that produce science and technology at NIST. The institute’s policies for science provide robust examples for how effective science policies can contribute to the emergence of useful technologies. To progress towards technologies that can be years away, the agency uses several means for integrating the needs of eventual information users into the prioritization process. To accomplish this, NIST units, such as the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, incorporate mechanisms for considering user need and project impact into different stages of its scientific decision processes. This, and other specific strategies that the agency utilizes for connecting the supply of science to information demand, provide lessons for generating useable science.     

优化实验教学提升实验功能

1 问题的提出 化学实验是激起学生学习化学兴趣的首要外部因素,要使学生学好化学就必须重视和加强实验教学.     

产业创新系统模型的构建与分析

产业创新系统研究是继技术创新理论和国家创新系统理论之后创新管理领域兴起的新兴前沿领域。本文在综合研究国内外产业创新管理优秀成果的基础上,构建了产业创新系统模型,对其结构、功能和运行机制进行了分析。