In order to better understand the competitiveness of companies and with this their surrounding regions, economic geographers have focused on competencies in manufacturing companies for more than two decades. This paper discusses the development of innovative competencies at plant level. Using subsidiaries of international automotive supply companies in Poland as an example, we analyze and typif...

Information and communications technology can continue to change our world. These advances will partially depend upon designs that synergistically combine software with specialized hardware. Today open-source software incubates rapid software-only innovation. The government can unleash software-hardware innovation with programs to develop open hardware components, tools, and design flows that s...

Among various forms of innovation in industry structures and business models an increasing number of companies have shown interest in aligning themselves to an open source software model as a means to capture intellectual energy, productive software processes and relevant technical skills. This is evident both within small and niche businesses, but also within the largest companies – a phenomen...

During the past decade, the World Economic Forum has published its annual reports in which the Global Competitiveness Index is included. This paper aims to investigate the key factors for achieving an innovation-driven economy. In this paper, we used partial canonical correlation analysis (PCCA) to examine the relationships between key pillars in “efficiency enhancers” and “business sophisticat...

Argentina’s software industry is orders of magnitude smaller than the largest software industries in the world like India’s. However, it has seen impressive growth over the last years, with ratios ranging from 15 to 20% per year since 2003. This is due to several reasons, including time zone compatibility with the US and Europe, resource quality, price competitiveness and active policies from t...

Today we have approx. 1 billion Internet connections and more than 3 billion mobile phone subscribers. Both numbers are steadily increasing. Information fl ows around the world instantly through electronic media. Today, people send more than 1500 emails per person per year, and the distance or the size of the mail does not increase the cost. One can send a person’s annual accomplishment of crea...

The German software industry is vital to the German economy's success. However, it has missed some current trends where software companies lack broader international activity. Existing models that take domestic market size into account can only partially explain the different degrees of internationalized companies between different countries. In addition, they are unable to explain individual c...

companies' continuity, because all companies have some relations with the society;therefore, the society provides long-term survival of the company.in this way, companies in addition to economic responsibility, must take responsibilityof social issues. therefore, with respect to corporate social responsibility andits revelations, the current paper examines the relationship between social r...

In the modern global economy, companies are facing ever-increasing challenges for short time-to-market to enter into the market early, for reduced time-to-volume to occupy the market quickly, and for decreased time-to-profit to get return from market shortly. Product lifecycle management (PLM) is recognized as one of the key leading technologies to facilitate companies to overcome these challen...