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Strategies for developing an intelligent transportation systems industrial base in South Korea
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Thirty years of high economic growth has transformed South Korea into a middle-income country with strengths in many promising industries. However, the government of South Korea realizes that the country must constantly ...
Flow control techniques in a serpentine inlet : an enabling technology to increase the military viability of unmanned air vehicles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Sociopolitical challenges to the siting of facilities with perceived environmental risks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Difficulties are often experienced in the siting of facilities that serve a public need but also pose localized safety, health and/or environmental risks. This has historically been due to not-in-my-back- yard (NIMBY) ...
Multi-attribute tradespace exploration with concurrent design as a value-centric framework for space system architecture and design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
The significance of production cost inputs in regional technology choice : composite automotive body-in-whites in the US versus China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Nations seek to influence the technology decisions of multi national firms producing within their borders for many reasons. These reasons range from a nation's desires to maximize its competitiveness in the global marketplace ...
Nonproliferation issues in the nuclear energy future
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
The continuing increases in annual greenhouse gas emissions, in the absence of stringent mitigation measures, will produce a doubling of pre-industrial atmospheric concentrations in the second half of this century and a ...
Valuation methods for capital investment in merchant power plants
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Wholesale electricity in the U.S. and many other countries is increasingly being supplied by unregulated firms competing to sell their product in competitive markets. Developers of the new merchant plants face a different ...
Managing risks of supply-chain disruptions : dual sourcing as a real option
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
This thesis examines how firms should prepare against disruption in their supply-chain and focuses on how they can use real options to value dual sourcing strategies. As an introduction, it defines a general framework to ...
Analysis of real options in hydropower construction projects : a case study in China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Concurrent process mapping, organizations, project and knowledge management in large-scale product development projects using the Design Structure Matrix method
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Sustainable success in product design and development relies not only on technical expertise and creativity within the company but as crucially, if not more, on an intelligent design of the development process, an appropriate ...