Flexible Integration of Enterprise Resources Planning in the Case of Roumanian Public Reasearch and Development Strategy

Abstract:

The modern development of research and development (R&D) is critical for Romania, an emerging country with smart people, scientists and entrepreneurs, especially in the actual context after the global crisis. In order to gain the desired performance in fundamental and applied R&D it is necessary to change the actual vision and to understand the importance of long term processes and the role of flexibility and adaptability to the movement of global markets. A new strategy for research and development (R&D) in Romania is necessary in the actual context, because it is very difficult to obtain the critical mass of resources and the processes of tranformation are difficult in the case of Romania. This research is also important because R&D is based on public funds and public organizations are typical isolated, dominated by an organizational fragmentation and the low caopability to adopt the technological progress. ERP systems represents a paradigm capable to sustain the Romania R&D strategy also because they represent the central element of the future e-governance architecture. That is why in the case of Romanian R&D strategy the integration of ERP should be consider in a special framework.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 436)
• Pages: 571-577
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.436.571
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Mircea Boşcoianu*, Elena Corina Boscoianu
• Keywords: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Flexible Integration, Implementation, Research and Development (R&D)

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