This paper presents an innovative competitive approach for high-tech industries, named Technology Based Marketing (TBM). This approach is compared with other eight business approaches. Nowadays, competition is changing and becoming more dynamic and therefore more difficult. Hence, technology can be leveraged to a source of competitiveness. With the TBM approach, three types of technology can be...

Using a new data source on the reservation wages of IT workers, we argue that IT workers often accept lower pay in exchange for acquiring new technical skills on-the-job. This drives a wedge between workers’ pay and their perceived market value that is a) larger for IT workers than for other professionals, b) larger for midcareer IT workers, c) increasing in job tenure and d) larger for IT work...

The Israeli High-Tech industry boom in the past decade deserves a thorough study of the local reality as well as an appraisal of the efficiency of existing programs. This paper sets as its main objective an analysis of the effectiveness of the Incubator Program in Israel at the national, regional and local economy level. First, we evaluate the High-Tech incubators as a filter of new technologic...

The economic activities related to food and agriculture are not usually considered as the conventional path to development. These are generally categorized as ‘low-tech’ activities and often considered as a transitional phase towards ‘high-tech’ manufacturing industries. This paper holds that such conventional thinking may no longer be true in certain contexts. It uses the Prebisch-Singer thesi...

Agglomeration spill-over benefits are a major driver of policy creating industrial and science parks across the world. However, agglomeration benefits can be offset by competition arising out of the spatial proximity of firms. In this paper we examine the impact of agglomeration and selection on Taiwanese firms' total factor productivity (TFP) distribution and show that agglomeration causes the...

The classical electrostatic image principle for a perfectly conducting object consisting of two orthogonally intersecting spheres is revisited through vector analysis. A method for finding the image of a given charge distribution by splitting it in three virtual singlesphere problems is described. Also, a simple relation between the image charges of a given point charge is found. The method is ...

The methodological tool of the technology foresight strategy in innovation activity which is based on the new expert estimation principles and software for processing the results of the foresight under the real conditions are proposed. Obviously, this strategy should determine the main development directions of strategically important industries, the prospects of competitiveness products, the s...

Meet us at Photonics West North Hall Booth 4320 In recent years, 3D printing has attracted increasing attention in many industries. From bioprinting of living organs to engine and airplane components, a variety of 3D printing techniques are already in use today, mainly differentiated by the additive or subtractive manufacturing approach. But what’s the application potentiality in the med-tech i...

Product replacement plays a critical role in many high-tech durable goods markets. Since these markets frequently undergo both rapid improvements in quality and falling prices, the consumer's replacement decision is most often due to product obsolescence, as opposed to wear and tear. Despite its importance, this issue has received insufficient attention in the literature, especially from an emp...