Tech Giants' Entry

Spinoff Entry in High-tech Industries: Motives and Consequences

Handheld computers for data entry: high tech has its problems too

BACKGROUND The use of handheld computers in medicine has increased in the last decade, they are now used in a variety of clinical settings. There is an underlying assumption that electronic data capture is more accurate that paper-based data methods have been rarely tested. This report documents a study to compare the accuracy of hand held computer data capture versus more traditional paper-bas...

New Firm Formations and Inherited Organizational Capabilities: Analyzing Modes of Entry in a High-tech Cluster

Recently empirical studies have focused on how capabilities of new entering firms are important for the evolution of industries over time. The performance of new entrants appears to be significantly influenced by their pre-entry background. The general impression of the literature is that firms founded by former employees of successful incumbents have shown larger propensities to survival than ...

High Tech versus Low Tech Training

The United States Marine Corps has some of the most advanced weapons systems and training in the world, yet they make extensive use of “low tech” training tools. Sand table exercises and tactical decision games are used by Marines all over the world, at sea and on land. Although the U.S. Department of Defense has a nearly $18 billion annual training budget, the Marines choose to teach decision ...

Frailty: joining the giants.

Since Isaacs made that statement, further giants of geriatric medicine, such as iatrogenesis, have been added to the list. The concept of geriatric syndromes has been universally accepted with internationally agreed-upon definitions and numerous guidelines for assessment and treatment. The last decade has seen a burgeoning interest in yet another giant: the frailty syndrome. Frailty can be thou...