Bridging tech and biotech

Competiveness and Innovation in High-tech Companies: an Application to the Italian Biotech and Aerospace Industries

Innovation activities are a critical factor in national and regional development. The innovative behaviour of companies is one of the main sources of competitiveness, business survival, economic growth and employment in a territory. It is therefore important to identify and understand the factors that determine innovation behaviour among enterprises. In line with...

Tuning In to Technology Benefits of Biotech , Computational Tech , and Nanotech

SBML2SMW: bridging System Biology with semantic web tech- nologies for biomedical knowledge acquisition and hypothesis elicitation

Motivation: Generation of biomedical hypothesis is a very important task in the pharmaceutical industry since it serves the whole drug development pipeline: which are the physiopathological mechanisms underlying a disease, which biomarkers shall be measured in a clinical trial in order then to be able to do proper data mining and then deliver best service to the patients, which unexpected event...

Termination Outcomes of High-tech Alliances: Bridging Firm- and Transaction-specific Antecedents

This paper examines how alliance experience accumulation at the parent firm level and alliance features at the transaction level jointly and interactively shape the termination outcomes of high-tech collaborative agreements. We draw upon the knowledge-based view of the firm and work on governance design to differentiate alliance termination outcomes, investigate where favorable terminations occ...

Biotech Patents and Indigenous Peoples