Technology Transfer in Japanese Fiber Industries

Improving Heat Transfer in Falling Film Evaporators in Food Industries

Falling film evaporators, due to their high heat transfer coefficients, low energy loss, rather a low holdup time, and the ability to handle high capacities have broad applications in food industries. Thus, this kind of evaporator is being used in the production of temperature sensitive compounds such as syrups. In this study, through modelling of the falling film evaporator with the use of...

Robotics and Automation in Japanese Construction Industries

Competitive Advantage in Technology Intensive Industries

This chapter introduces the learner to the meaning of competitive advantage and posits that a firm’s strategy is defined as the managers’ theory about how to gain and sustain competitive advantage. The manner in which a firm creates its competitive advantage by creating more economic value than its rivals, and explains that profitability depends upon value, price, and costs is demonstrated. The...

In Low and Medium Technology Industries

R&D, Technology Transfer and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Industries

Based on an industry-level data set for Chinese largeand medium-size manufacturing enterprises over the period of 1996–2006, the paper investigates the impacts of three technology acquisition channels, i.e. in-house R&D, foreign technology transfer and domestic technology transfer, on the productivity growth by using both the output elasticity and the rate of return methods. We find that in-hou...