The software engineering institute's capability maturity model integration (CMMI) defines five levels of software maturity and outlines a plan to move up the scale to higher, more effective levels.
The Swarm Satellite Constellation Application and Research Facility (SCARF) is a consortium of six European institutes with acknowledged capability in these areas (Olsen et al., 2013).
This is the power of the reputation economy, and businesses are trying to adapt sufficiently: Amazon's vendors actively build up their feedback after selling a product and Yelp instituted vendor-response capabilities as a way to mitigate negative reviews.
The Swarm Satellite Constellation Application and Research Facility (SCARF) is a consortium of six European institutes with acknowledged capability and expertise in magnetic and electric field modelling and orbit determination (Olsen et al., 2013).
Similarly, the central importance of key individuals to the policy influence capabilities of institutes can be a double-edged sword: if one or two key people leave the institute then influence may wane.
Those cuts have "prompted unease in many quarters that European countries risk losing global influence as they fall further behind the United States in military capabilities," the institute said in its most recent annual report on military spending, "while rising powers such as China rapidly catch up and even overtake them".
This week, the institute added new capability to Semantic Scholar with an equally ambitious aim: measuring the influence that a scientist or organization has had on subsequent research.
This could be a strong reflection on the capabilities of academic institutes, especially in the high technology context and a bigger strategic problem to be looked into.
Her legacy at WEHI includes building a new facility that will double the number of scientists by 2012 and adding bioinformatics and structural biology capabilities to the institute's core research in immunology, cancer research and infectious disease.
Unfortunately, however, many countries still either have no NPHIs or have institutes with severely limited capacities and capabilities relative to the need.
