Are high-growth firms overrepresented in high-tech industries?

Electronic Procurement in Today’s High-Tech Firms

9. Knowledge Management of High- Tech Firms

Based on an analysis of six high-tech firms in mainland China, this chapter examines knowledge management issues by focusing on its acquisition, dissemination, and commercialization. We found that most firms emphasized knowledge acquisition. SOE-based firms relied more on their parents for early key technologies, confirming that institutional support and social capital are influential in knowle...

An Augmented Common Weight Data Envelopment Analysis for Material Selection in High-tech Industries

Material selection is a challenging issue in manufacturing processes while the inappropriate selected material may lead to fail the manufacturing process or end user experience especially in high-tech industries such as aircraft and shipping. Every material has different quantitative and qualitative criteria which should be considered simultaneously when assessing and selecting the right materi...

Spinoff Entry in High-tech Industries: Motives and Consequences

The Financial Structure and High-Tech Industries Development in China

The transformation of economic development approach demands to develop high-tech industries, while high-tech industries can’t develop without financial support, in which different financial structures exists differences in the efficiency of high-tech industries development and support. For this reason, this paper firstly theoretically described the mechanism of financial structure’s effect on h...