Non-technological innovation is an important element of firms’ innovation activities that both supplement and complement technological innovation, i.e. the introduction of new products and new processes. We analyse the spread of nontechnological innovation in firms, their relation to technological innovation, and their effects to firm performance and success with product and process innovation,...

In this research is presented a method for technological capabilities assessment in a company in transformer industry. Used and discussed criteria in this technique are merely developed to assess technological capabilities in transformer industry. Based on literature, technological capabilities in transformer industry are divided into three main categories: production capability, development an...

A critical concern for continued growth of the world economy is whether technological progress can mitigate resource depletion. This paper measures depletion effects and technological change for offshore oil production in the Gulf of Mexico using a unique field-level data set from 1947-1998. The study supports the hypothesis that technological progress has mitigated depletion effects over the s...

This paper examines interfirm knowledge transfers within strategic alliances. Using a new measure of changes in alliance partners' technological capabilities, based on the citation patterns of their patent portfolios. we analyze changes in the extent to which partner firms' technological resources 'overlap' as a result of alliance participation. This measure allows us to test hypothesesfrom the...

The paper Investigates stability and change of regional economic activities in the longrun. As the unit of analysis we selected the machine tool industry in West Germany for the years 1953 to 2002. We spot a strong variance in the activities between the different regions. These differences are relatively stable over time and the regional activities are rather path-dependent. Nevertheless, the p...

Using Nepal’s district level time-series data (1991/92 and 2002/03), this research examines the extent to which technological innovations have provided farmers with options to substitute for climatic constraints in order to enhance rice productivity in climatically diverse regions of the country. The findings from both empirical and qualitative assessments indicate that Nepal’s research establi...

This paper intends to investigate how process and product technological changes are sought and conducted by Brazilian semiconductor companies. The semiconductor sector (strongly represented by chips) deserves special attention in the set of links composing the various supply chains of the electronic industrial complex, since it is highly strategic in this context. A survey with all semiconducto...

This paper surveys the major changes in patent policy and practice that have occured in the last two decades in the U.S., and reviews the existing analyses by the economists that attempt to measure the impacts these changes have had on the processes of technological change. It also reviews the broader theoretical and empirical literature that bears on the expected effects of changes in patent p...

Forecasting customers’ responses and market competitions is essential before launching major technological changes in product design. In this research, we present a data-driven network analysis approach to understand the interactions among technologies, products, and customers. Such an approach provides a quantitative assessment of the impact of technological changes on customers’ co-considerat...

Humanity confronts a daunting double challenge in the 21st century: meeting widely-held aspirations for equitable human development while preserving the bio-physical integrity of Earth systems. Extant scientific attempts to quantify futures that address these sustainability challenges are often not comprehensive across environmental and social drivers of global change, or rely on quantification...