Challenges Between Competition and Collaboration

President’s Introduction: From Idea to Implementation.- Plenary Presentations.- Between Collaboration and Competition — The Future of the European Manufacturing Industry.- ERA: A Challenge for Co-opetition — “Towards Knowledge-based Enterprises”.- Plant Engineering in Global Competition.- Jaguar Racing — Collaboration in the Workflow?.- Long-Term Cooperation in the European Aerospace Industry — A Model for Future Successful Partnering in Competitive Environments.- The Network of Automotive Excellence as a Potential Response to Change in Development / Production and Brand Policy.- The European Automotive Supply Industry at the Crossroads.- Network of Automotive Excellence — The Future Role of Tier 1 from a Development Standpoint.- eEurope and the European Research Area — EU Policies to Address Major Business and Work Challenges.- Networks of Excellence: Relevance, Feasibility, Sustainability.- Discussion Forums.- Secure Engineering Collaboration — Engineering Alliances Among Collaborative Enterprises.- e-Business: The Importance of Standards for e-Marketplaces.- Neutrality, Openness and Co-operation in the Service Industry.- Core Competences: Recognition, Development and Successful Implementation — Network of Automotive Excellence.- 30 Per Cent More Efficiency in Product Development — Fiction or Hard Fact?.- Productivity of “Knowledge” Work or the New Role of Men at Work.- 30 % Higher Efficiency in Product Development — Requirements to the OEM from the Engineering Service Suppliers’ Point of View.- Virtual Level Collaboration: SMEs in Aerospace.- Technology as a Basis for Collaboration.- MOSAIC E-Net Integration Platform — Reduction of Processing Costs through Electronic Data Exchange.- Data Re-presentation as a First Step Towards aUnified IT-Structure.- Invited Contributions.- Competition and Collaboration in Sport.- Opening Up to Change — People as Critical Success Factor for Collaboration.- The Boundaries of “Marketisation” — The Myths About Entrepreneurial Employees.- “Performance Community” — New Financing Solutions.- Identification of Cost-Saving Potentials Achieved by Collaboration Using Product Lifecycle Costing.- Competition and Collaboration in the Automotive Industry.- Best-Practice Concept for Supply Chain Monitoring.- New Networks: Features and Tasks.- Ewf Information.- Networks of Excellence: Ewf Europe’s Vision.- Ewf Association in Switzerland.- Conference Information.- Authors.- Programme of the Conference.- Participants.