JEIM

BIM adoption entails substantial challenges such as the operational skills and knowledge for the users and it is required to understand the commands, protocols and standards of the environment in which they operate. Furthermore, different building types and applications or purpose of use of a BIM model add another layer of complexity in understanding the required protocols and standards. Thus, the acquisition of this operational knowledge and skills is fundamental impediment that restricts the adoption of BIM if it is not rigorously considered. Effective development of the aforementioned skills and knowledge to exploit the new BIM technologies for lean practices is not trivial problem. On the contrary, it requires conceptual and process knowledge to conform and create organisational, inter-organisational quality and requirements, which are likely to be a mixture of both organisation and project driven needs. In this paper, the learning experience derived from a KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) project of BIM adoption and Implementation between the University of Salford and John McCall Architects (JMA) in Liverpool, UK is reviewed and discussed. During the project, many of the challenges of training members of staff to use newly introduced BIM tools were addressed. How members of staff were educated in the use of BIM is considered and evaluated within this paper.

Keywords: Building Information Modelling, Knowledge Management, Operational Knowledge and Skills, Lean thinking, Architectural SME
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This working paper aims to identify Turkish- German economic relationship of foreign direct investment and patents in line with the Turkish-German collaboration project (TGIN). Econometric methods such as correlation, regression and Granger causality to analyze the effect of German FDI inflow to Turkey on total foreign-based patent applications for the period from 1999 to 2011 have been used. The results justify the relationship between patents and FDI. The reciprocity between patent applications and FDI is more remarkable for Turkish-German interaction via flow of FDI and patents. German-based FDI fosters patent applications faster with respect to foreign-based FDI to patent transformation.

Keywords: Turkey and Germany, Foreign Direct Investment, Patents
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The present paper aims to study the relations among variables of innovation, process maturity and firm’s performance. Along with this purpose, it first investigates the relationship between innovation and performance and second hypothesizes a positive relationship between process maturity and both innovation and performance. Several empirical studies examine these relations. The results from a questioner which was obtained from individual interviews in 253 firms were analyzed in order to identify the right variables for measurement. Then the causal relations of these variables were defined through Structural equation modeling (SEM) and AMOS 18. The results show that two variables of process maturity and innovation positively affect the efficiency of business environment. Innovation and performance are also under the effect of process maturity. One of the other results of this paper demonstrates that firm’s age moderates this effect.

Keywords: Innovation, process maturity, firm’s performance.
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Ülkemizde Ar-Ge, inovasyon ve teknoloji üretim çalışmaların artması ve üniversite-sanayi işbirliklerin gelişmesi amacı ile 2000 yılında kurulmaya başlanılan Teknoloji Geliştirme Bölgelerinin sayısı bugün itibari 34’e ulaşmıştır. Bu bölgelerde toplam 2.138 firma 18.462 kişiye istihdam sağlamaktadır. Bu bölgelerde teknoloji üretmek için yürütülen proje sayısı 5.600, alınan patent sayısı 322, yapılan toplam ihracat ise 680 Milyon $’dır. Bu bölgelere aktarılan ödenek ise (yararlanılan teşvikler hariç) 80 Milyon $’ düzeyindedir. ......

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