The pharmaceutical industry provides a good laboratory to investigate the effects of mergers and alliances on innovation and R&D productivity. Over the past few decades, the industry has been characterized both by significant consolidation of large pharma firms as well as the vertical disintegration of the R&D process. The latter is associated with significant entry into the discovery and devel...

The adoption and diffusion of RFID technology take longer time than it was expected years ago. While few industries adopted RFID right away others are reluctant and took up a ‘wait and see’ position. Especially standards play a major role. Even standards are available today, many industries announced additional requirements for their specific processes. As an example we analyze the developments...

This paper looks into Technological Investment Decision-Making (henceforth TIDM), and aims to surface the influence of the historical evolution of expertise in the banking sector on such decisions. In so doing, the paper underlines that, in each era, the technological decision-making activity is strongly linked to the views of dominant expert groups in the industry. The paper proposes that TIDM...

Digitization and contemporary use of social media platforms is changing how we perceive and use IT, both in organizations and as citizens or consumers. These developments have also transformed and changed many industries, bringing both opportunities and challenges. One industry that was affected by digitization relatively early is the media industry, leading to studies on online journalism, gat...

The apparel industry has, like most other industries quickly started using the Internet to gain improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of operations and marketing. In this report we briefly overview the developments of electronic commerce in apparel industry. We try to develop a framework for choosing the right technology and development options based on the business model and busines...

aseptic processing is defined as steril product filling in pre-sterilized containers followed by hermetic sealing in a sterile environment. aseptic processing and packaging has made great developments as a flexible and efficient technology for production of sterilizable products in food industries. in this study, the historical developments of the application form processing, sterilization of p...

This paper draws an analogy between developments in enterprise software and in capital goods manufacturing industry. Many branches of manufacturing industry, especially automotive industry, have grown in maturity by moving from craftsmanship to mass production. These industries subsequently move from mass production towards mass customization, introducing lean practices. Finally, full maturity ...

the impact of information & communication technology to increase financial transactions in different fields shows the positive developments of this industry in iran. but, is the ict industry also can be effective in the economic capital of the country? it occurs when the ict industry has a good performance in the capital markets. in this study, the ict industry in the tehran stock exchange was ...

CONTEXT In recent decades, natural products have undisputedly played a leading role in the development of novel medicines. Yet, trends in the pharmaceutical industry at the level of research investments indicate that natural product research is neither prioritized nor perceived as fruitful in drug discovery programmes as compared with incremental structural modifications and large volume HTS sc...

Inspired by new developments in dynamic spectrum access, we study the dynamic pricing of wireless internet access when demand and capacity (i.e., available bandwidth) are both stochastic. The demand for wireless internet access has increased enormously in recent years. However, the spectrum available to wireless service providers is limited. The industry has thus expanded conventional license-b...