International Industrial Transfer, Green Technological Innovation, and Manufacturing Global Value Chain Status

Firm organization , industrial structure , and technological innovation ’

The formal and informal structures of firms and their external linkages have an important bearing on the rate and direction of innovation. This paper explores the properties of different types of firms with respect to the generation of new technology. Various archetypes are recognized and an effort is made to match organization structure to the type of innovation. The framework is relevant to t...

Technological Innovation for Value Creation

Measuring China’s Domestic Technological Upgrading in the Global Value Chain

Less developed countries (LDCs) usually undertake technology-poor slices in the spatial hierarchy of global value chain (GVC). This paper proposes a measure for domestic technological contents (DTC) for LDCs in the GVC, and calculates the DTCs for China as a whole and Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces separately. Two findings emerge from the calculation: the DTC indexes of China and Jiangsu kept ...

Barriers to Technological Innovation and International Market Orientation of Polish Manufacturing Enterprises

The aim of this paper is to assess the influence of innovation barriers for technological in-novation on the innovation performance as well as sales market orientation of Polish firms. The analysis isconducted on the sample of 7783 manufacturing enterprises participating in the survey GUS PNT–02/CISfor the years 2008–2010. The results show statistically significant relations between...

The Innovation Value Chain

Innovation events the introduction of new products or processes represent the end of a process of knowledge sourcing and transformation. They also represent the beginning of a process of exploitation which may result in an improvement in the performance of the innovating business. This recursive process of knowledge sourcing, transformation and exploitation we call the innovation value chain. M...