Technological Challenges of Strategic Materials Development

Strategic technological innovation for sustainable development

Technological innovation can be highly instrumental in achieving sustainable development. How well does technology innovation research address the needs of sustainable development and in what directions does this research need to move to usher in sustainable development? We use co-word analysis in existing research publications to map the intellectual structure of the field of ‘strategic techno...

Strategic Technology Adoption under Technological Uncertainty

Technological Forecasting: A Strategic Imperative

Assessing future opportunities and threats is a serious management concern. All we know about the future is that it will very likely pose new and different challenges. Hence, the basic resources which serve a business today may have little relevance under tomorrow's conditions. If a business is to survive, it must be prepared to adapt rapidly to the requirements of the future. Difficulty arises...

Technological Diversification and Strategic Alliances

This paper examines empirically the relationship between the internal technological profile and the diversification through strategic alliances of the largest 219 industrial firms world-wide. It explores three related issues. First, the paper shows that firms’ internal technological diversification is more pronounced than external technological diversification. Second, it confirms the idea that...

Technological Competition and Strategic Alliances*

Using a large unique patent-strategic alliance dataset over the period 1990 to 2004, we first show that firms faced with greater technological competition are more likely to form alliances. Technological competition is captured by a cosine similarity measure between a firm’s own patent output and the patent output of all other firms in the economy. We further show that alliances lead to more pa...