Incentives and Innovation? R&D Management in Germany's High-Tech Industries During the Second Industrial Revolution

The Second Industrial Revolution, 1870

The first Industrial Revolution and most technological developments preceding it had little or no scientific base. It created a chemical industry with no chemistry, an iron industry without metallurgy, power machinery without thermodynamics. Engineering, medical technology, and agriculture until 1850 were pragmatic bodies of applied knowledge in which things were know to work, but rarely was it...

Competiveness and Innovation in High-tech Companies: an Application to the Italian Biotech and Aerospace Industries

Innovation activities are a critical factor in national and regional development. The innovative behaviour of companies is one of the main sources of competitiveness, business survival, economic growth and employment in a territory. It is therefore important to identify and understand the factors that determine innovation behaviour among enterprises. In line with...

Information, cybernetics and the second industrial revolution

The Evaluation of the Innovation Capability of China’s High-Tech Industries

This essay combines the factor analysis with the characteristics of high-tech industries, and makes comparison among China's 5 major categories of high-tech industrial innovation capacity. High-tech industrial innovation capability assessment model is built to evaluate the current development of China’s high-tech industry innovation capability, analyze the innovation capacity of each high-tech ...

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...