Chile presents an interesting case of development of information processing and technology. Its open-market policies, good education level and early adoption of computer technology have allowed its exports to become competitive on an international basis. This has been a pioneering approach in Latin-America. The Chilean software industry has had some initial success and it is attempting to grow ...

The European Commission has put software patents on its agenda. For the first time in Europe’s history a monopole will be granted by the State on immaterial ideas. The goal of this paper is to introduce the reader to the particular economics of the software sector and to compare the costs and benefits of a market with software patents against the actual situation. For this purpose we’ll explain...

Innovations are crucial for the survival of firms in an ever faster moving environment. But how should a firm organize its knowledge management for tacit and explicit knowledge? Where to focus? How to ensure transfer of knowledge from customer into the firm? In this paper we first develop a list of critical factors for knowledge management (KM), using different theoretical frameworks. We identi...

This paper presents an in-house BAuA study on the evaluation of the COSHH Essentials exposure predictive model. External validation is based on measurement data obtained in BAuA field studies performed in various industries, e.g. printing industry and textile industry. In addition, measurement data and information on industrial hygiene provided by the chemical industry within the framework of t...

Wage Setting in the Colombian Manufacturing Industry We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in contrast to the standard theoretical prediction. On the contrary, internal institutional arrangements – payroll taxation, the minimum wage or the price wedge between manufacturing and consumption prices – together with a high...

We use the adaptive LASSO from the statistical learning literature to identify economically connected industries in a general predictive regression framework. The framework permits complex industry interdependencies, including both direct and indirect sectoral links. Consistent with gradual information diffusion across economically connected industries, we find extensive evidence that lagged re...

Why do we need measurement The software industry as all other industry has as its main goals to deliver products and services to the market. This must be done at a price that the customer accepts as reasonable and at a quality that the customer wants. One of the main characteristics of the market is that it changes, not by itself but through the competition among those who provide the goods tha...

In the manufacturing domain there are two major challenges in the future, innovation via integration enabling improved decision making and servitization, the design and use of innovative services. The German Industry 4.0 initiative is aiming to support the integration and virtualisation of manufacturing design and production processes using the internet in infrastructure to create smart product...

The software industry continues to struggle with producing quality software in the most efficient manner. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the use of newer, innovative development methods, which embrace high levels of collaboration, may be a viable solution to this problem. While collaboration has always been used, these techniques emphasize high levels of interpersonal collaboration during the...

Received: 10 February 2012 Abstract Accepted: 9 May 2012 The article addresses the issues of Supply Chain (SC) performance measurement – the process of qualifying the efficiency and effectiveness of the supply chain. The aim of this study is to present a supply chain measurement approaches for manufacturing industry. The research is based on a review of the current understanding of supply chain...