Isabel Ramos

Isabel Ramos is an Assistant Professor at Information Systems Department of University of Minho, Portugal. She coordinates a research group in Knowledge Management. She also has research work in the field of requirements engineering. Isabel Ramos is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction and Secretary of the IFIP TC8 (Information Systems). Her research and teaching interests include: requirements engineering, knowledge management, organizational theory, sociology of knowledge, history of science, and research methodology. She is responsible for the user studies in two funded R&D projects. Isabel Ramos is author of more than three dozen scientific papers presented at international conferences and published in scientific and technical journals. She advises the work of several PhD and Master students.

Publications

Organizational Memory: The Role of Business Intelligence to Leverage the Application of Collective Knowledge
Organizational Memory: The Role of Business Intelligence to Leverage the Application of Collective Knowledge
Isabel Ramos, Jorge Oliveira e Sá. © 2019. 18 pages.
Nowadays, the major challenge to organizations managers is that they must make appropriate decisions in a turbulent environment while it is hard to recognize whether information...
Collaborative Research (CR): To Reduce Transaction Cost in Open Innovation
Collaborative Research (CR): To Reduce Transaction Cost in Open Innovation
Amiram Porath, Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2015. 12 pages.
As a conceptual study this chapter takes open innovation as a tool that has been considered from the point of view of collaboration between the Industry and the Academy. However...
Stages of E-Government Maturity Models: Emergence of E-Governance at the Grass Roots
Stages of E-Government Maturity Models: Emergence of E-Governance at the Grass Roots
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2014. 19 pages.
E-Government and e-Governance are the two terms within the governance system that need to be attended through clarity, distinctness, and justification. No matter how the stages...
Organizational Memory: The Role of Business Intelligence to Leverage the Application of Collective Knowledge
Organizational Memory: The Role of Business Intelligence to Leverage the Application of Collective Knowledge
Isabel Ramos, Jorge Oliveira e Sá. © 2014. 18 pages.
Nowadays, the major challenge to organizations managers is that they must make appropriate decisions in a turbulent environment while it is hard to recognize whether information...
Empowerment of SMEs Through Open Innovation Strategies: Life Cycle of Technology Management
Empowerment of SMEs Through Open Innovation Strategies: Life Cycle of Technology Management
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 18 pages.
Adoption of innovation strategies in entrepreneurship is an age old phenomenon, but inclusion of open innovation or collaborative innovation strategies in the business processes...
Ethical Data Mining Applications for Socio-Economic Development
Ethical Data Mining Applications for Socio-Economic Development
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 359 pages.
Organizations that utilize data mining techniques can amass valuable information on clients’ habits and preferences, behavior patterns, purchase patterns, sales patterns, and...
Research and Practices on Open Innovation: Perspectives on SMEs
Research and Practices on Open Innovation: Perspectives on SMEs
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 23 pages.
Innovation has become a recognized driver of economic prosperity of a country through sustained growth of its entrepreneurships. Moreover, recently coined term open innovation is...
A Research Model for Open Innovation: Synthesizing Opportunities and Challenges Surrounding SMEs
A Research Model for Open Innovation: Synthesizing Opportunities and Challenges Surrounding SMEs
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 23 pages.
With the advent of innovative technologies and long the setting of entrepreneurship development philosophy, context and business handling have been transformed from being...
Open Innovation Strategies in SMEs: Development of a Business Model
Open Innovation Strategies in SMEs: Development of a Business Model
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 13 pages.
Open innovation in entrepreneurships already finds its acceptance at all levels of the business industry for adding value to the business. The value could be in the form of...
The Case of a Portuguese Intermediary of Open Innovation: Inovamais
The Case of a Portuguese Intermediary of Open Innovation: Inovamais
Fábio Oliveira, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 12 pages.
Inovamais is an innovation consultant that began its activities in 1997, several years before the popularization of the Open Innovation paradigm. The founding motivation was to...
Open Innovation in SMEs of Developing and Transitional Economies
Open Innovation in SMEs of Developing and Transitional Economies
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 19 pages.
Despite being accepted by corporate entrepreneurs and large business houses around the globe, the adaptation of strategies and concepts belonging to the newly evolved dimension...
Rvolta, a Case for Open Innovation: How can a SME be Innovative in a Competitive Industrial Environment?
Rvolta, a Case for Open Innovation: How can a SME be Innovative in a Competitive Industrial Environment?
Margarida Cardoso, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 18 pages.
Rvolta has been working in waste management industry for 16 years now. This SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) from Portugal is taken as a focus point for the case study...
Trends of Open Innovation in Developing Nations: Contexts of SMEs
Trends of Open Innovation in Developing Nations: Contexts of SMEs
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 16 pages.
Evidently, innovation is a genuine reality within the entrepreneurships, given the circumstances of economic crisis, global competition, and novelties of technologies. Perplexing...
Cases on SMEs and Open Innovation: Applications and Investigations
Cases on SMEs and Open Innovation: Applications and Investigations
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 296 pages.
Innovation has become a key success factor for economic development and a prerequisite for sustainable development. In a complex and highly competitive global environment...
SMEs and Open Innovation: Global Cases and Initiatives
SMEs and Open Innovation: Global Cases and Initiatives
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 356 pages.
Open innovation has been widely implemented in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with the aim of influencing business promotion, value gain, and economic empowerment. However...
Trends of Open Innovation in Developing Nations: Contexts of SMEs
Trends of Open Innovation in Developing Nations: Contexts of SMEs
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 16 pages.
Evidently, innovation is a genuine reality within the entrepreneurships, given the circumstances of economic crisis, global competition, and novelties of technologies. Perplexing...
Rvolta, a Case for Open Innovation: How can a SME be Innovative in a Competitive Industrial Environment?
Rvolta, a Case for Open Innovation: How can a SME be Innovative in a Competitive Industrial Environment?
Margarida Cardoso, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 18 pages.
Rvolta has been working in waste management industry for 16 years now. This SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) from Portugal is taken as a focus point for the case study...
Cardmobili: Innovation Technology in Everyday Life
Cardmobili: Innovation Technology in Everyday Life
Cândida Silva, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 14 pages.
The developments of the internet, the proliferation of the use of Web 2.0 tools, and of the technology in general, are leveraging new ways of people to communicate, collaborate...
The Case of a Portuguese Intermediary of Open Innovation: Inovamais
The Case of a Portuguese Intermediary of Open Innovation: Inovamais
Fábio Oliveira, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 13 pages.
Inovamais is an innovation consultant that began its activities in 1997, several years before the popularization of the Open Innovation paradigm. The founding motivation was to...
Research and Practices on Open Innovation: Perspectives on SMEs
Research and Practices on Open Innovation: Perspectives on SMEs
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 23 pages.
Innovation has become a recognized driver of economic prosperity of a country through sustained growth of its entrepreneurships. Moreover, recently coined term open innovation is...
A Research Model for Open Innovation: Synthesizing Opportunities and Challenges Surrounding SMEs
A Research Model for Open Innovation: Synthesizing Opportunities and Challenges Surrounding SMEs
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 23 pages.
With the advent of innovative technologies and long the setting of entrepreneurship development philosophy, context and business handling have been transformed from being...
Open Innovation Strategies in SMEs: Development of a Business Model
Open Innovation Strategies in SMEs: Development of a Business Model
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 14 pages.
Open innovation in entrepreneurships already finds its acceptance at all levels of the business industry for adding value to the business. The value could be in the form of...
Open Innovation in SMEs of Developing and Transitional Economies
Open Innovation in SMEs of Developing and Transitional Economies
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 19 pages.
Despite being accepted by corporate entrepreneurs and large business houses around the globe, the adaptation of strategies and concepts belonging to the newly evolved dimension...
Empowerment of SMEs Through Open Innovation Strategies: Life Cycle of Technology Management
Empowerment of SMEs Through Open Innovation Strategies: Life Cycle of Technology Management
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2011. 16 pages.
Adoption of innovation strategies in entrepreneurship is an age old phenomenon, but inclusion of open innovation or collaborative innovation strategies in the business processes...