Technological innovation is a key ingredient in building high performance organizations and the proper evaluation of technological innovation capability (TIC) is very important for decision makers. The objective of this paper is to introduce an analytical network process (ANP) model for technological innovation capability evaluation. This paper reports an application of proposed methodology as ...

During the past decade, the ‘script’ concept, indicating the actively prescribing role of technologies in human actions, has acquired a central place in STS. Up to now, the concept has mainly functioned in descriptive settings. This paper will deploy the concept in a normative setting. When technologies play a role in the coming about of human actions, they give material answers to the ethical ...

Given that Micro and Nano Technologies (MNTs) is still an emerging field, it is important to adopt a tool for evaluating the maturity of MNT-based products and the production processes enabling their manufacture. In particular, as a risk assessment tool, it could help both the pace of technological adoption and the successful exploitation of these technologies. In this context, the objective of...

complicacy, variety and ever-increasing changes, assumed as outstandingly evident organizational environment features, impose a situation where inconsiderate attitude or carelessness could end in loss of competitiveness or even survival among rivals. today, organizations have come to the point that nothing, but knowledge and innovation could make them desirably successful in a competitive world...

Product innovation is conventionally treated as a mechanism for organizations to renew their product portfolios. In this paper, we suggest that product innovation not only enables organizations to introduce new products to the market but also challenges organizations to renew their technological capabilities. Capability stretching is the degree to which an organization extends its technological...

This study discusses how outward foreign direct investment (FDI) can complement the inward FDI-based technological capability-building process, through an analysis of the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation case. When a firm is upgrading its technological capability, outward FDI can allow learners to have access to human-embedded skills and knowledge and other intellectual assets that are ...

This paper attempts to understand the structure underlining the weakness of the Indonesian economic development strategy in a systemic perspective. The explanation assumes the importance of industrial technological capability within the framework of the techno-economic structure. The results of a simulated model of techno-economic administration show the weakness of the industrial technological...