The overall purpose of this article is to serve as an invitation for submissions to the ‘Practice-Based Research’ section of INNOVATIONS in pharmacy. To provide background about this section of the journal, this paper describes: (1) the concept of innovations that we will apply, (2) the practice-based research domain, and (3) the use of practice-based research networks for this area of inquiry....

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...

The Chinese Enterprise entered in the transnational enterprise and the supply chain by the way of OEM(original equipment manufacture), the things made in China like the electric appliance、 clothes、toy, the productions have occupied the important share in the global market, but this is still insufficient to cause the Chinese enterprise to enter the transnational enterprise's ranks ,because the C...

Technological Innovation, Financial Fragility and Complex Dynamics In this paper we suggest a scaling approach to business cycles. We develop a heterogeneous interacting agents (HIAs) model that replicates well known industrial dynamics stylized facts, as the power law distribution of firms’ size and the Laplace distribution of firms’ growth rates. In particular, the power law is a persistent b...

This article analyzed the motive of multinational corporation technological innovation globalization, the characteristic and the present situation ,thought strives for the cost advantages and the market advantages, contention and reserve human resources, which are the strategic goal of multinational corporation implements technological innovation in China. Therefore, Chinese enterprise’s strate...

The agglomeration of innovation determinants has a significant influence on the innovation performance of industries and enterprises. Such an effect has received less attention in empirical research studies. This study involves a survey of the agglomeration effect of two important innovation determinants, R&D investment and R&D personnel, and its influence on innovation performance from the per...