How electronic technologies, like electronic paper, can be used to replace the use of normal paper

["Lin Li" <Lin_Li@student.uml.edu>]

Dear Colleagues,

I received this request but am not able to help this gentleman.  Could you,
or do you know anybody that could, help?

Lin Li
************************************************
Doctoral Candidate
Research Associate
Department of Work Environment
University of Massachusetts Lowell
One University Avenue
Lowell, MA 01854
Tel: 978 934 4383
Fax: 978 452 5711


--- Steven Archambault <archsteve@comcast.net> wrote:
> some German researchers who are looking at how electronic technologies,
like electronic paper, can be used to replace the use of normal paper. They
will be coming to east coast in April, and want to meet with some
organizations, companies, etc. to discuss this project. I was hoping that
maybe you, and perhaps others if you have any ideas, might be able to meet
with these researchers for an hour or so the week of April 7th. It would be
very much appreciated.

> They are interested in meeting with a variety of
> stakeholders related
> to this issue. These may include research
> organizations doing similar
> projects, companies or other organizations trying to
> reduce paper use,
> companies using electronic paper or other data
> management technologies,
> companies in the paper/publishing industry,
> technology development
> companies, organizations involved with policy
> making, etc.
>


> The research team is conducting a socio-economic
> research project on
> behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education
> and Research (BMBF).
> The project is part of larger research initiative
> dealing with the
> conditions which promote innovations for
> environmental sustainability.
> Within this framework the research team is
> investigating the
> international diffusion of such innovations,
> applying the Lead Market
> Approach which states that countries which adopt
> innovations early can
> also effectively determine the structure of
> international markets.
>
> Among a variety of cases they want to look at are
> the technologies
> which have the potential to provide a substitute for
> printing paper.
> They want to find out if either Germany or Japan or
> the U.S. can be
> expected to be a Lead Market for such technologies
> and, if so, what are
> the conditions responsible for this phenomenon. Of
> particular interest
> are the development, marketing, and use of computer
> technologies such
> as electronic paper, data management systems, etc.
> that replace the use
> of paper.
>
> The questions they would like to ask fall into the
> following categories.
>
> 1) Potential to substitute paper for electronic data
> management
> 2) Various technologies used in such data management
> (problems for
> development, successes)
> 3) Markets and diffusion of the technologies
> (problems, possibilities,
> etc.)
> 4) Paper reduction policies, goals, and/or policies
> influencing this
> use of the technology
>
> More information on the above mentioned
> BMBF-research network is
> available form www.riw-netzwerk.de or
> www.riw-network.org I would also
> be glad to provide you with additional information
> which you may
> require, particularly the intermediate report on the
> Lead Market
> Project. Please do not hesitate to ask
>
> The researchers are Dr. Jürgen Blazejczak from the
> University of
> Applied Sciences in Merseburg, Germany, and Dr.
> Dietmar Edler from the
> German Institute of Economic Research in Berlin. Web
> sites for these
> institutions are www.fh-merseburg.de  www.diw.de
>
> I hope this gives you some information to start
> with. I am happy to
> answer if you have any questions about it.
>
> Kind regards,
> Steven Archambault
>



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