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Knowledge management and innovation performance in a high-tech SMEs industry

2011

This article examines how knowledge management (KM) affects innovation performance within biotechnology firms. This is an industry in which small- and medium-sized biotech enterprises live together with the biotech divisions of large pharmaceutical firms. We conceptualize KM as a set of practices and dynamic capabilities, and hypothesize that KM dynamic capabilities act as a mediating variable between KM practices and innovation performance. We use structural equation modelling to test the hypotheses on a data set from the biotechnology industry. The results support our conceptualization and demonstrate its utility in explaining differences in innovation performance across firms. Findings …

Europa 2020 in Sicilia e nel Mezzoogiorno: spin-off di ricerca, distretti high-tech e strategie di innovazione istituzionale

2014

Merger policy in innovative industries

2016

We analyze optimal merger policy in R&D-intensive industries with product innovation aiming to improve the quality of products. Our results suggest that a permissive merger policy is rarely optimal in high-tech industries when the antitrust authority considers a welfare standard that balances the impact of mergers on con- sumers’ surplus and firms’ profits. In particular, relative to a benchmark where the effects from R&D are absent, we show that the optimal merger policy should not be substantially more permissive in the presence of those effects from R&D. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Latvijas augsto tehnoloģiju uzņēmumus stimulējošie faktori ieiešanai ārvalstu tirgos

2015

Bakalaura darba tēma ir „Latvijas augsto tehnoloģiju uzņēmumus stimulējošie faktori ieiešanai ārvalstu tirgos”, ar mērķi noskaidrot kādi faktori mudina Latvijas augsto tehnoloģiju uzņēmumus internacionalizēt savu darbību. Darbus izstrādāts trīs daļas. Pirmajā daļā apskatīta internacionalizācija un tās stimulu teorētiskais aspekts, kā arī augsto tehnoloģiju uzņēmumu raksturojošas pazīmes. Tai seko augsto tehnoloģiju industrijas apskats Eiropā un Latvijā. Trešajā daļā veikta pētījuma gaitā aptaujāto Latvijas augsto tehnoloģiju uzņēmumu sniegto rezultātu analīze, secinot, ka iekšējie faktori ir primārie internacionalizācijas stimuli, no kuriem iespēja palielināt peļņu un uzņēmuma sniegtā produ…

Cross-border IT-support for the Management of International Subsidiary Operations: The Diffusion of Innovations-based Conceptual Model

2006

Rapid and effective internationalization has increasingly become important for high-tech companies. Establishing a foreign subsidiary can facilitate effective internationalization for a high-tech company. This study investigates how IT can provide cross-border support to manage international subsidiary operations and makes important theoretical contributions. The research results exhibit how companies can use cross-border IT-support to effectively share and utilize information from the target country environment for international subsidiary operations. This paper also introduces the diffusion of innovations-based conceptual model which deals with various factors that should be taken into ac…

The Creative Class Revisited: Does the Creative Class Affect the Birth Rate of High-tech Firms in Nordic Countries?

2015

In the new knowledge-based economy, the ability of both firms and regions to adapt to the changes in their external environment and to remain competitive is closely related to their capacity to innovate and continuously renew the existing structures and knowledge bases. With respect to this, dense concentrations of knowledge-intensive industries and related activities are usually considered to be propitious environments from which new innovations can emerge. In such environments, the ability to attract talented, highly skilled labor is crucial for the success of regions. Employees who possess and provide know-how and creativity play a leading role in knowledge-intensive production and inno…

Performance Dissimilarities in European Union Manufacturing: The Effect of Ownership and Technological Intensity

2021

Our paper addresses the relevance of a set of continuous and categorical variables that describe industry characteristics to differences in performance between foreign versus locally owned companies in industries with dissimilar levels of technological intensity. Including data on manufacturing sector performance from 20 European Union member countries and covering the 2009–2016 period, we used the random forests methodology to identify the best predictors of EU manufacturing industries’ a priori classification based on two main attributes: ownership (foreign versus local) and technological intensity. We found that EU foreign-owned businesses dominate locally owned ones in terms of size, wh…

Paths of local development: Two technological districts face-to-face

2009

In this paper we compare the two hi-tech districts of Catania and Genoa, which are within the same national context and economic sector, with the aim of explaining their different choices (the promotion of external investments, in the first case, and fostering of the development of small businesses, in the second case) in the light of the local economic structure and the role played by political, economic, and educational institutions. Local actors have differently influenced the development of a professional community through the interpersonal networks of entrepreneurs and the performance obtained by local small businesses. While Catania has experienced a higher and more rapid growth, deve…