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Boosting Innovation and Productivity in Enterprises: What Works?
A return to economic growth and higher employment requires growth in the number and sustainability of Irish enterprises. Innovation at enterprise level is essential for sustainability and competitiveness and plays a major role in increasing overall productivity. Understanding the determinants of enterprise innovation and how it affects productivity is important for designing effective innovation policies. The tight fiscal constraints and the urgency of achieving successful outcomes require that government policies aimed at enhancing enterprise innovation and raising productivity need to be very effective. This paper draws on recent international theoretical and empirical literature based on enterprise level data to explore four questions: Does innovation contribute to higher productivity? Which types of enterprises invest in innovation? Which enterprises have higher innovation expenditure per employee? Which types of enterprises are more likely to innovate successfully? We then look at what these findings imply for policy in relation to indigenous enterprises, whether the current policy mix is appropriate and how it might become more effective.Productivity
Knowledge source preferences as determinants of strategic entrepreneurial orientation
In the knowledge intensive context, firmsâ capacity to integrate external and internal
sources of knowledge becomes an important competitive advantage and may
distinguish entrepreneurial from conservative firms. This paper explores the
proposition that differences in strategic entrepreneurial orientation (EO) across firms
may be significantly determined by differences in firmsâ preferences regarding
knowledge sources. Our research is based on 208 firms operating in knowledge
intensive industries in six Central and East European countries (CEEC). We
identified three types of firms in terms of patterns of sources of knowledge: external
R&D knowledge based firms, in-house knowledge based firms and value chain
dependent firms. By using different proxies or different dimensions of EO, we have
found that the EO is strongest in firms based on external knowledge. Firms with inhouse
based knowledge have an intermediate strength of the EO, and firms dependent
on value chains are the least entrepreneurially oriented. We have also found moderate
support for grouping different proxies of EO into three dimensions identified in
literature â innovativeness, pro-activeness and risk-taking. Value chain firms are not
pro-active, have the lowest innovativeness, and are the most risk averse. External
knowledge based firms are the most active in all three dimensions of EO, while inhouse
knowledge based firms are in an intermediate position. Our results point to
strong systemic features of entrepreneurial activities; i.e., EO is inherently different in
different sub-populations of firms depending on their patterns of sources of
knowledge. It seems that these patterns operate as a moderating factor between
performance and the EO, which explains mixed results from the literature
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Implementation of virtual manufacturing by a technology licensing company
NoThe paper considers the implementation of a virtual manufacturing system as an alternative to outward technology licensing in a high technology industrial sector. Brief theoretical definition and description of the two strategy options is provided to give background and context. This is followed by empirical material from a longitudinal case study of a company that has developed a virtual manufacturing system in addition to its pre-existing outward technology licensing business stream. A summary account of the company history and development is followed by description of the virtual manufacturing proposal. Analysis of this identified a number of competencies that would be required in order to succeed. The final part of the paper describes the company's response to this analysis and discusses early implementation of the virtual system. It is shown that implementation of the proposal has represented a positive response to the business challenges facing the company
Determinants of emerging technology commercialization: evidence from MEMS technology
The term âemerging technologyâ refers to new technologies that create substantial
changes to industry evolution and enterprise management. Nowadays, such technologies are
mainly based on the development of information technology, internet technology,
biotechnology and other interdisciplinary areas with potential industrial applications.
Although emerging technologies have created opportunities for technological and economic
innovation, their âcreative destructionâ characteristics also result in a very high failure rate
in their commercialization processes.
Most of the recent studies on the commercialization of emerging technology have
focused on developed areas such as the United States, Japan, and the European Union, with
few studies on developing countries like China. The present thesis seeks to fill this gap.
Taking 112 Chinese MEMS enterprises as a sample, this thesis empirically investigated the
determinants of emerging technology in China. Furthermore, a case study (Wuxi BEWIS
Sensing Technology, Ltd.) was employed to analyze how these determinants affect the real
commercializing process in the Chinese economy. Through multiple regression analysis, the
empirical results show that technology property, market conditions, regional innovation
network, and enterprise capability are determinants of MEMS commercialization, whereas
social environment and policy and regulation do not have significant impacts on the
performance of MEMS commercialization.O termo âtecnologia emergenteâ diz respeito a novas tecnologias que estĂŁo a gerar
mudanças substanciais na evolução da indĂșstria e na gestĂŁo das empresas. Atualmente essas
tecnologias baseiam-se sobretudo no desenvolvimento da tecnologia de informação, da
tecnologia de internet, da biotecnologia e de outras ĂĄreas interdisciplinares com potencial de
aplicação industrial. Embora as tecnologias emergentes tenham criado oportunidades para a
inovação, tecnolĂłgica e econĂłmica, as suas caracterĂsticas de âdestruição criativaâ tambĂ©m
resultaram numa elevada taxa de insucesso nos processos de comercialização.
A maioria dos estudos recentes relativos à comercialização de tecnologia emergente
tĂȘm-se focado em regiĂ”es desenvolvidas tais como os Estados Unidos, o JapĂŁo, e a UniĂŁo
Europeia, existindo poucos estudos em paĂses em vias de desenvolvimento como Ă© o caso da
China. Esta tese procura contribuir para o preenchimento dessa lacuna. Partindo de uma
amostra de 112 empresas chinesas de sistemas microeletromecĂąnicos (MEMS), procurou-se
investigar empiricamente os determinantes de tecnologia emergente na China. Além disso, foi
efetuado um estudo de caso (Wuxi BEWIS Sensing Technology, Ltd.) para analisar como
esses determinantes afetam o processo real de comercialização na economia chinesa. Os
resultados empĂricos, obtidos atravĂ©s de anĂĄlises de regressĂŁo mĂșltipla, mostram que a
propriedade tecnológica, as condiçÔes de mercado, a rede regional de inovação e a capacidade
empresarial são determinantes para a comercialização de MEMS. Por outro lado, constata-se
que o ambiente social, a polĂtica e a regulamentação nĂŁo tĂȘm impactos significativos no
desempenho da comercialização de MEMS
Enterprise Patent Control Ability (Concept, Attribute and Evaluation)
To explore and construct the theoretical system of research on the control ability of enterprise patent. [Method/process] Using the method of Literature research and survey, from the three dimensions of enterprise patent control technology, product and market to define the concept of enterprise patent control ability and set up the evaluation index system, analysis of the attributes of patent control ability of enterprise. Including dynamics, relativity, value and interest of two sides [Result/conclusion] the research results shows that the patent control ability of enterprise is to control core technologies through patent creation, application, protection, management and other activities, so as to control the supply and demand of specific products, ultimately affect and control specific competitors in specific regions, control industrial competition pattern and occupy the high end of the industrial value chain. Enterprise patent control ability is an important scale to evaluate the realistic status of enterprise and an important tool to predict the development trend of enterprise and industries. Keywords: Patent technology, Patent products, Patent market. DOI: 10.7176/JESD/11-8-08 Publication date: April 30th 202
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Go west for fame and fortune? The role of internationalization in the growth of Chinese telecom firms
This paper focuses on the role played by internationalization in the growth of Chinese telecom firms by comparing the three cases from Chinaâs telecom sector â Huawei Technologies (Huawei), Zhongxing Telecom Equipment Corporation (ZTE), Datang Telecom Technology (Datang). Faced with a global market that was strongly oligopolistic and dominated by Western firms, we show that internationalization strategies triggered by resource seeking played different roles in the growth strategies of these three firms. The contrasting fortunes of these firms also underscores the fact that the success of internationalization strategies of firms from emerging markets cannot be understood without reference to the global competitive environment faced by firms
Divergence or Convergence in Research and Development and Innovation Between âEastâ and âWestâ?
Book description: Research suggests that innovation and technological change are crucial for the economic recovery of the former centrally planned countries in Central and Eastern Europe. This book analyses the development of innovation systems and technology policy in this region from various perspectives, demonstrating not only its importance but also its complexity
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