Technological innovation became one of the biggest sources of competitiveness in major sub-sectors of services. In what concerns health care services business, evidences are much more diffused, because the ownership of the business could influence the objectives in terms of competitiveness, costs and service quality. Additionally, the concept of technological innovation is very wide, if we cons...

The paper explores firstly the impact of technological change on trade growth at the country level, using trade statistics and statistics on patenting activity in the US, across 20 countries for 17 manufacturing sectors. Secondly, using structural decomposition analysis, the paper examines statistically, whether the degree to which countries get access to sectors with above average growth in te...

The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation, innovation and financial performance, through mediating role absorptive capacity technological capability. used a quantitative method collect data via questionnaire from executive officers 156 startup organizations in Thailand. Respondents were selected using simple random sampling Structural Equatio...

It has been shown that over a 20 year period of time the OECD countries have converged in terms of their aggregate technological effort, but this trend covers diverging patterns of sectoral innovative activities even for the countries at the forefront of the " convergence club " (Archibugi and Pianta 1994). This evidence supports the relevance of the National Systems of Innovation (NSI) perspec...

Innovation and the Determinants of Firm Survival * While many firms compete through the development of new technologies and products, it is well known that new-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies consistently find a negative association between innovative activity and firm death. We argue that this ...

This study examines the evolution of exploration and exploitation within intra-organisational domains, specifically, the technological and market knowledge domains in high-technology firms. It simultaneously tests the interaction between exploration and exploitation across domains. Furthermore, this paper examines the impact of firm-level failure experience on exploration and exploitation withi...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of domestic marketing on the organizational innovation through mediation of the staff self-efficacy. the statistical population of this study includes 150 members of emersam company where the sample members were selected randomly. in order to collect the research data, three questionnaires have been used. these include the questionnaire of...