Showing papers in "Technovation in 1990"

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed overview of different modes of inter-firm co-operation is presented, reflecting the complexity and dynamics of private governing structures in capitalist economies which are attempting to cope with the present far-reaching consequences of technological development.

TL;DR: In this paper, a preliminary way in terms of selected work from the more extensive, continuing validation research on Kirton's adoption-innovation inventory is shown to be useful in sorting out the relation of innovativeness to other personality constructs and shifting the focus of the work from more ambitious theoretical modeling efforts to work that is concerned with the more modest objective of predicting actual adoption behavior.

TL;DR: A survey on Italian inventors who filed patent applications in 1981 is presented in this article, where the authors analyse the productive use of patended inventions, the conditions under which patents are granted, and the inventive activity in the period after application.

TL;DR: In general, companies collaborate when the costs of independent efforts are high relative to expected benefits as mentioned in this paper. But the more applied the R&, the more likely it is to remain a marginal activity, consisting of projects that individual companies rank second to those pursued with internal resources.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a survey of 109 Japanese companies to identify and assess the factors that affect corporate technology strategies and concluded that technology strategy making in the Japanese corporation is driven by market forces but directed towards overall national goals.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors pointed out that the most important dual-use investments are those that increase industrial capacity to absorb or share technologies from other industrial sectors, and that the capacity for this "creative technology absorption" has as much to do with social and cultural aspects of industrial structures and the organization of work as it does with technical artifacts.

TL;DR: This study focuses on some key points of a case of improving future product development to win a sales competition by reinforcing the strength of a product whose position as a market leader has been overtaken by a competitor.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new method is proposed for assessing a new technology, with reference to either the specific (internal) or the socioeconomic advantage, which consists in the fixation of the parameters that must be used for the assessment and the algorithm for their synthesis.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the development and prospects for the Japanese commercial aircraft industry, concluding that the current dominance of global markets for commercial aircraft engines by U.S. and British firms does not appear to be threatened by an emerging Japanese competitor; nor are the positions of Boeing, Airbus Industrie, and McDonnell Douglas within large commercial transports likely to be affected by developments in Japan during the next three decades.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the concept of organizational capital as a unifying link between behavioral and economic theories relating to organizational productivity, which is useful to view these changes as investments in a kind of human capital known as organizational capital in which the attribute is embodied in either the organizational relationship, particular organization members, or the organization's files of information.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report that alternative analytical tools drawn from the marketing sphere give rise to a challenge of the accuracy of their instruments, secondly support of their major conclusion, and thirdly a revised interpretation of the number and relative importance of factors leading to innovative strength.

TL;DR: In this article, an overview of the progress of the initiative, the funding mechanisms involved and the wide-ranging factors which affect technology transfer between universities and industry is described, covering a period from the embryo stage, through the early development of this initiative and on to its modification and expansion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that informational-scale economies can only be achieved if information technologies in production per se is truly integrated with their use in other management functions, instead of being introduced ad hoc as is being done in most firms at present.

TL;DR: In this article, a closer analysis of the characteristics of venture capital suggests that the size of this market has been exaggerated and policy adjustments may be required to prevent the contraction of the supply of capital to new, innovative, technology-based firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a historical profile of the Nigerian political economy and the nature of the extant technical innovation and entrepreneurship within the economy, and a general discussion of the technical entrepreneurial functions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a measure of sectional productivity in a firm is proposed, and the authors describe economic reasons for sectionaliztion, and define a measure for a section of a firm.

TL;DR: A detailed review of the elements of a program to identify and to overcome some common sources of shortcomings in productivity as well as in product quality is reviewed.

TL;DR: The important role expert systems are playing in manufacturing in areas such as process scheduling, robotics, plant layout, and process planning is shown.

TL;DR: The literature on product adaptation in international markets has emphasized cultural, social, and political influences that necessitate a change in the product configuration as mentioned in this paper, and this article's focus is on the international technical environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the international trade of the machine tool industry using shiftshare analysis and found that Japanese firms possess the most aggressive penetration strategy in international markets, characterized by their choice of fast-growing markets and by a high degree of competitiveness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of managerial and organizational integration both as a systematic response to technical change and also as a positive feature irrespective of technical change is examined, and a framework for considering integration issues in relation to product and process change is proposed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify assumptions and pitfalls of using a productivity measure designed for use within a firm, and suggest that researchers should proceed with caution given these pitfalls and assumptions.

TL;DR: In this article, an outline of research activity in carbon and diamond film technology in the U.K. in 1988 is given and an analysis of the trends apparent from this expenditure is given.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the importance of, and need for, managerial and organizational integration both as a systemic response to technical change and also a positive feature irrespective of technical change.

TL;DR: The gestation period for known solutions to unknown problems, surprisingly but understandably, is often longer than if the problem itself is known and understood.