Showing papers in "Technovation in 2003"

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the seven innovation capability dimensions (learning, research and development (R&D), manufacturing, marketing, organizational, resource allocating and strategy planning) and the three firm characteristics (domestic market share, size and productivity growth rate) in determining the export performances for a sample of 213 Chinese industrial firms.

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model of trust in e-banking is proposed with two main antecedents that influence customer's trust: perceived security and perceived privacy, which are moderated by the perceived trustworthiness attributes of the bank, which includes benevolence, integrity and competence.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors collected and made up the most important contributions in the economic literature in relation to the special characteristics of the management of the environmental innovation in the SMEs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated critical management issues in ERP implementation projects such as selection of ERP vendor, project manager, and implementation partners, constitution of project team, project planning, training, infrastructure development, on-going project management; quality assurance and stabilization of the ERP.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address two exploratory research questions: how active in network development and technology transfer are university spin-offs during their early years to overcome initial disadvantages? And is there any relationship between early networks development and knowledge creation and knowledge transfer in university spinoffs?

TL;DR: In this paper, a technological road map for implementing mass customization based on building block identification, product platform development, and product life-cycle integration is presented for manufacturing industries and service providers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the key drivers for Lean in aerospace and examine the assumption that cross-sector transfer may be difficult and conclude that difficulties that arise may have more to do with individual plant context and management than with sector specific factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the criteria that influence the performance of high-tech new ventures and find that entrepreneur quality, resource-based capability, competitive strategy, product characteristics, market characteristics and financial criteria are the critical determinants of the firm's viability and achievement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the economic determinants of the strategies of the firms in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sectors and shed some light on the strategic motivations of these firms by establishing a parallel with the evolution of the retailing sector.

TL;DR: In this paper, the first findings of a survey-driven study of entrepreneurship students at the undergraduate, graduate, and continuing (continuing) education levels in France and in the US were analyzed.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that an ABC/M system can serve as a useful information system to support effective operations decision-making processes and enable an operations manager to enhance the quality of the decision- making process.

TL;DR: The role of technical entrepreneurs in the formation and growth difficulties encountered by high technology small firms is explored in this article, where a number of conceptual insights on the role of the technical entrepreneur are provided.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model is shown of how PAR can be used to combine industrial work with university resources in a fruitful way so that scientific findings can also be useful findings for practitioners, and it is shown (for the first time?) that action research has a strong scientific support in modem science from quantum physics and chaos complexity theory while in many ways it contradicts the classical (Newtonian) view of how 'good' science should be performed.

TL;DR: In this article, an empirical research study was carried out to determine the extent to which Malaysian firms use the services of logistics companies; the time period these have been used; the decision-making process for choosing contract logistics and its impact on the organisation.

TL;DR: In order to understand the added value of a Science Park location, there is need for detailed research exploring the characteristics and performance of firms located on and off the Science Park as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the history of mobile communications, including the types of devices available and the growth of these technologies, are discussed and the deliverables for determining if the customers are satisfied are provided in examples of successful implementation of mobile communication in businesses.

TL;DR: Results show that the dimension collaboration of integration may be more relevant under circumstances of high new product innovativeness than when minor variations are introduced in a new product.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of 229 small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) having received assistance under such a program was conducted, and four separate positioning profiles emerged from the study, namely potential practices, emergent practices, priority practices and realized practices.

TL;DR: In this article, the potential of e-business to provide a necessary lever to enhance competitiveness of the South African (SA) apparel sector is explored, and a number of policies designed to create an enabling and nurturing environment aimed at promoting and accelerating the diffusion of ebusiness technologies and strategies in the SA apparel sector.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined a new integrative evaluation approach for pharmaceutical R&D projects and proposed a real options approach for project selection and review, and resource allocation decisions.

TL;DR: Six cases of strategic technology partnerships in the mobile telephone industry are analyzed to investigate how, in high velocity environments, firms manage technology partnerships as an integrated element of their technology strategy.

TL;DR: How the optimal switching time between technology generations is determined is determined by such factors as technological uncertainty embedded in the technology, the cost to switch from one generation to another, and the utility which the economy enjoys by utilizing the technology platform.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the underlying components of technological competitiveness and technological attractiveness and found that the attractiveness of a given technology depends mainly on the potential impact of this technology on the competitive issues, the market volume and the span of applications it opens, its performance relative to other technologies, the competitive intensity of the technical area and the barriers to imitation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effectiveness of R&D tax credits using data on 904 Japanese manufacturing firms over 10 years (1989-1998) and found evidence that tax price elasticity is about −0.68 when estimating it for all firms.

TL;DR: A case study of e-commerce in the Taiwanese military organization by diagnosing and preventing procurement faults, constructing a transparent procurement environment, and enhancing military procurement efficiency, and an attempt to establish an e-market environment via web-based architecture on e-procurement procedure is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the results of a survey of Spanish automotive suppliers on the use of individual practices and cooperation activities in new product development have been presented, showing that some firm practices, such as cooperation activities, explained the companies' differences in time and cost development minimization abilities over competitors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present findings of field research undertaken by the authors to study the status of new technology commercialization practices in the country and focus is on the parameters that influence the decision regarding commercialization of new technologies and the success of the new technology ventures, the efficacy of existing financing/support mechanisms and the further actions required by stakeholder agencies, viz., industry, technology institutions, financial institutions and the government for further development of commercialization in India.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the contribution of the creation of science parks in St. Petersburg to the development of tenant firms in the absence of comparative statistics and conclude that science parks are rather successful in securing financing for their tenants, but deficient in providing management assistance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore corporate entrepreneurship initiatives as purposeful rent-seeking activities and provide specific examples of firms that have exploited the economic rent generating potential of the various forms of CE.