Differentiating Criteria for High-Tech Companies

Open innovation as a strategy for small high–tech companies

Incorporated citizens: multinational high-tech companies and the BoP

In this article, I examine HP’s e-Inclusion program and its implementation in India to show how the high-tech industry’s efforts to alleviate poverty proatably are guided by C. K. Prahalad’s ideas about the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP), and are framed as digital corporate citizenship activities. While the BoP highlights the importance of new markets for high-tech companies, the discourse of digi...

Editorial: human resource management in high-tech companies

Biographical notes: Professor Dominique R. Jolly is a Faculty Member of CERAM Sophia Antipolis (France). He teaches ‘Strategic Management’ and ‘Technological Management’ in undergraduate, postgraduate and post-experience programmes. He has taught as Visiting Professor in several countries including: the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Denmark, China, Mexico, Indonesia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Moldova ...

Knowledge Virtualization and Local Connectedness among Smart High-tech Companies

Smart high-tech companies are characterized by knowledge intensity and open innovation. Even when these companies emerge in spatial clusters or dense urban places, they may utilize knowledge networks on a global scale. However, there is not much insight into the factors that shape knowledge networks, the role of virtualization herein and the impact of on global knowledge sourcing on local conne...

Valuation of Early Stage High-tech Start-up Companies

Valuating start-ups, especially at early stages, is a challenge given the lack of historical data and many uncertain factors about the future. This article presents a methodology for the valuation of early stage start-ups that we have proven in practice. The risk linked to a start-up is expressed through an individual beta coefficient as important component of the discounting factor within a di...