The industry – and primarily its processing sector was remains the leading economic activity, which can be evidenced by intensified reshoring processes in developed EU countries. However, competitiveness or enduring ability to withstand competition due availability of appropriate potential, realized only if a high level efficiency is achieved. This largely depends on existing structural paramet...

High Performance Manufacturing (HPM) technology comprises new developments to reduce primary process times and lead times significantly by the means of enhanced cutting abilities, adapted tooling and machine concepts combined with integrated examination and optimization of the process chain. The overall objective of High Performance Manufacturing is to increase efficiency and quality of product...

Studies in Comparative International Development, Spring 2006, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 76-98. Seán Ó Riain is professor of sociology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His research has been primarily on the political economy of high-tech growth in Ireland and elsewhere, and on work and class politics among software developers. He is the author of The Politics of High Tech Growth: Deve...

The impact of the Human Resource (HR) capability on the firm’s performance and its involvement in developing business strategies are becoming increasingly important particularly in high tech Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Not surprisingly, the main debate in HRM, particularly in SMEs, is nowadays concerned with the relationship between HR capabilities and the firm’s overall performa...

The increasingly strategic use of patents, and their importance for competitive advantage, pose special challenges for small high-tech firms. This paper seeks to add to our understanding of the strategic and economic effects of patents by exploring why small high-tech firms take out patents – and why not – and how these choices are linked to these firms’ broader business and technology strategi...

a r t i c l e i n f o The study explores Israel's Silicon Valley style of entrepreneurial financing and venture capital (VC) management. Israel is known as the most successful Silicon Valley-style economy, similar to the US Silicon Valley. The high-tech economy of Israel presents an interesting case of effective institutional setting and policies that transform the country into the innovation n...

Unlike more stable industries, high-tech firms must constantly be in a strategy development phase. These companies are in desperate need of assistance in strategy formulation. Chaos and Complexity theories can provide a powerful approach to support the development of business strategies to deal with these fastmoving environments. This paper analyzes the different schemes provided by Chaos and C...

intra-industry trade (iit) comprises of instantaneous imports and exports of goods and services which are handled in a same industry. the importance of iit between trading partners refers to those tradable products that provide them with diversity and high technology. to expand its foreign trade relations, iran indeed requires such trade patterns that include diversification of goods and servic...