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| Capacity Building for Industry and
Business and Value of Knowledge |
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Principal Investigators
MIT:
N.Choucri, J.Kauffman
ETH: R.Baud
UT: T.Tomiyama
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1999 AGS Mapping Project in its extensive review of the organization
found that while much useful information originates from AGS
research, a significant gap exists between the scientists with their
results and industry members who can actually use them. This project
aims to make the knowledge acquired as a result of AGS available to
industry for implementation.
Goals/Objectives
The
purpose of the project is to (1) explore and define the best ways of
representing, exchanging and applying the knowledge generated by AGS
partners and industrial collaborators to business and industry
applications ‘on the ground’, (2) extend this knowledge about best
ways of representation to regional business and scientific networks,
and on this joint basis, (3) formulate and execute a pilot strategy
of knowledge-sharing in applied contexts, (4) and reduce the gap
between the knowledge generated by the AGS researchers, on the one
hand, and industry capacity in the sustainability domain on the
other.
Results/Findings
- Updated the AGS mapping project (I, II, III)
- The initiation of theses and case studies to provide the
theoretical grounding for the system developed and recommendation
that will emanate from the project (8-10 case studies):
- Comparative carpet cases
- GMO’s
- Car-sharing
- Computer-based model
- Knowledge networks for sustainable development
- Trends in decentralization of R&D
- Evaluation of methods used to support the claim that:
Companies that do better environmentally also do better
financially
- White paper on framework for capacity building know
knowledge sharing between industry and
academia
- Progress in development of the GSSD portal and interest
expressed in developing into interactive modalities by several
industries
- Development of the methodology and metrics for improving
understanding of the relationship between value and
sustainability
- The web-based “Handbook of Sustainable Development”, which
will be available through the GSSD portal in several languages
- The Technical Manual for GSSD and its interfaces with
AGS
Future
- To explore and define best ways of representing, exchanging,
and applying the knowledge generated by AGS partners and
industrial collaborators to business and industry application on
the ground
- Extend application of the framework to regional business and
scientific networks
- Formulate, execute and receive feedback on a pilot strategy of
knowledge sharing in applied
contexts.
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