Management of Technology New Directions in Technology Management Selected Papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on Management of Technology This page intentionally left blank Management of Technology New Directions in Technology Management Selected Papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on Management of Technology EDITED BY Mostafa Hashem Sherif Tinton Falls, USA Tarek M. Khalil University of Miami, Florida, USA ELSEVIER Amsterdam • Boston • Heidelberg • London • New York • Oxford Paris • San Diego • San Francisco • Singapore • Sydney • Tokyo Elsevier The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK Radarweg 29, PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands First edition 2007 Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone (+44) (0) 1865 843830; fax (+44) (0) 1865 853333; email:
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