considering the essential role that product development plays in fast- growing firms learning how to perform its activities can be highly valued, whereas product development activities are per se a proper context for knowledge acquisition. in this study, the narrative approach and the technique of deep and targeted interviews have been used to narrate the stories expressed by nine of the sales ...

China became the second-largest economy behind the USA in 2010. While there is quite some macroeconomic research documenting the technological catching-up of China as a nation, there is only little research studying how individual Chinese firms are catching up. This paper draws on the open innovation perspective to explore how Chinese firms improve their innovative performance. Our empirical an...

This paper selects 372 companies in the US S&P 500 from 2013 to 2017 as a sample, and uses empirical research methods test relationship between corporate board size performance. The results show that there is negative correlation of directors performance; after dividing sample into high-tech non-high-tech industries, this more prominent field. After classifying according parity number direc...

T. BAWIN*, S. BOUKRAA*, F. SEYE*/***, F.N. RAHARIMALALA*/****, J.Y. ZIMMER*, F. DELVIGNE**, F. FRANCIS* *Functional and Evolutionary Entomology, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium **Bio-Industries/CWBI, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium ***Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Univer...

The PILOT project comprised partners from nine European countries. The national research teams have conducted a series of case studies on non-researchintensive, so called low-tech companies in eleven countries, investigating their value chains and regional networks, and the policies that impact on these firms and on low-tech and medium-low-tech (LMT) sectors in general. A second thread of work ...

This article surveys a new generation of analytical tools for capacity planning and management, especially in high-tech industries such as semiconductors, electronics and bio-techs. The objectives of the article are to (1) identify fundamental theory driving current research in capacity management, (2) review emerging models in operations research, game theory, and economics that address strate...

Is there a 'new' economic geography of Information Technologies driven industries? Does the fast growth of the Digital Economy shape new regional specialization and industrial concentration? How do the different theories of agglomeration externalities contribute to the understanding of clustering dynamics in IT industries? This paper uses geographical data from 1992 and 1997 Census to examine s...