The Federation for International Refractories Research and Education (FIRE): Progress and Outcome on Education, Research and Industrial Partnership

Abstract:

FIRE has been incorporated as a non-profit organization in Canada, in May 2005. It is by now a network of professors, researchers and industrial partners, representing eight different universities spread in six different nations and eleven multinational companies, who have gathered, to undertake well-defined precompetitive research projects, and to train highly-qualified personnel for the industry. The evolution of the refractory education arena, in an economically globalized world, caught in a maelstrom of technical changes, is presented. The changes of paradigm from the “information age society” to the “crowdsourcing” in background, the FIRE realization are highlighted in such a context of “conceptual age society” are considered, with the concept of “coopetition”.

• Periodical: Advances in Science and Technology (Volume 70)
• Pages: 1-8
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AST.70.1
• Online since: October 2010
• Authors: Michel Rigaud
• Keywords: Crowdsourcing, Fire, Outsourcing, Refractory Education, Refractory Research

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2011.10.074