I n the modern competitive world, Research and Development (R&D) and its overflowing technologies are the main basis of innovation, which in turn, can be determined as an important source of economic growth. Investing in research activities can help firms with different technological levels, especially high-tech industries to improve their productivity. This paper aims to analyze the...

the main objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of r&d on profitability of high -tech industries with new evidence from the iranian industries carrying four- digit codes. the structure- conduct- performance (scp) paradigm, which is relatively well known in industrial economics and in organization management, provides the theoretical construct that guides our empirical model formu...

Does the Hazard Rate for New Plants vary between Lowand High-Tech Industries?* Based on a longitudinal data base the hazard rate of over 12,000 newly established plants in U.S. manufacturing industry in 1976 are estimated and then compared between low and high-tech industries. It is found that the hazard rate differs across industries, and it also varies between lowand hightech industries. The ...

The transformation of economic development approach demands to develop high-tech industries, while high-tech industries can’t develop without financial support, in which different financial structures exists differences in the efficiency of high-tech industries development and support. For this reason, this paper firstly theoretically described the mechanism of financial structure’s effect on h...

he links among trade, technological changes, and worker earnings have been the subject of intense research during the past few decades. The current literature on this subject shows that trade liberalization and technological changes are the main drivers of demand for skilled workers and a rise in the wage premium. In the present article, a panel of 134 Iranian manufacturing industries over the ...

Based on the R&D activities of Shanghai’s high-tech industries during 2010 to 2012, this paper uses super efficiency DEA model to analyze and evaluate the R&D efficiency of Shanghai’s hightech industries. The results show that the R&D efficiency of Shanghai’s high-tech industries has dissimilitude. The R&D efficiency values of some high-tech industries are relatively low. There are many redunda...

This essay combines the factor analysis with the characteristics of high-tech industries, and makes comparison among China's 5 major categories of high-tech industrial innovation capacity. High-tech industrial innovation capability assessment model is built to evaluate the current development of China’s high-tech industry innovation capability, analyze the innovation capacity of each high-tech ...