Influences on technology strategy in the uk oil- and gas-related industry network

In the course of the last 25 years the UK has seen the emergence of a new, technologically advanced network of organisations underpinning the technical needs of the oil and gas extraction industry.The euolution of this industy network has taken place within a public policy framework which has had too central objectives: to maximize UK industrial involvement in the industry and to maximize. North Sea oil and gas extraction. The extent to which this framework has encouraged the development of new, technology-based firms has not been systematical stuided. This study examines the extent of indigenous incoltlement in the network and the influence of the currrent pressures of economic and policy changes on the performance and strategic planning of these compnies.     

Technology strategy in uk firms

This paper is a conceptual and empirical study of the problems that companies and managers face in formulating a 'technology strategy'. The main issues in technology strategy decisions can be charactented as having acquisation management and exploitation elements and an internal-external dimension. The research on which the paper is based aims to link and develop these elements within a wider conceptual context. It reports that, empirical results of one questionnaire and two interview surveys on technology strategy, as practised by UK companies and managers. The findings from the studies and their implications are discussed for the technology strategy itself for the significance of the company industry and technology setting; and-fir the underlying problem of how managers think about the firms technologies. The conclusion is that the problems of formulating a technology strategy are more deeply rooted than has previously been suggested.     

英国的创意产业技术战略

英国技术战略委员会(TSB)于2009年发布的《创意产业技术战略(2009-2012)》报告,在深入分析创意产业特点及发展环境变化、影响创意产业发展的技术方向及其创意产业发展新趋势的基础上,提出了支持创意产业技术创新的系列举措.本文在该报告的基础上,结合英国对创意产业特征的新认识,对英国创意产业发展战略进行了解析,并提出了对我国发展创意产业的几点建议,如应密切关注产业发展新特点和发展机遇、 高度重视创意产业技术创新、关注重要技术方向以及为创新营造良好环境等.     

Implementing a technology strategy in developing countries: The experience of the Indonesian rolling stock industry

Integration of business and technology strategies is an attractive approach for industries in developing countries. However, to be successful, these strategies cannot be implemented according to a company's objectives alone regardless of the involvement of other players. Furthermore, consideration of interrelated technologies should be included if a product resulting from the strategy is expected to perform well and be sustainable. This article attempts to give a broader view of factors to be considered in implementing business technology strategies in developing countries. Supporting evidence is given from the rolling stock industry in Indonesia, which has been implementing a type of business technology strategy.     

Competitive strategy and the implementation of a new network technology: the case of EFTPOS in the UK

This article analyses competrtion and cooperation between UK banks, as they attempted to develop a national syitem jor electronic funds transfer at the point of sale (EFTPOS) The banks formed a {epanste company, EFTPOS UK Ltd, to develop a technically sophisticated national system, but soon interbank divisions led the larger banks to develop national schemes from pnwourly 'exfierzmental' networks. Over a period of two years, competition came to be defined as that between banks supporing the Switch scheme and banks supporting a Visa afebit turd senme. During this period the banks made repeated public declarations of the commritment to EFTPOS UK and represented nascent, proprietary EFTPOS networks as computible with the national scheme. The process by which the banks attempted to make sente of that ambiguous competitive environment is described and we use the idea of metastable' competive rategies to represent the successive temporary commitments the banks made to particular ways of understanding thew competitiue environments. 'strategic maps are drawn to represent stages in bank thinking on the possible competitive outcomes of EFTPOS development.     

Co-creation as a risk-sharing strategy for the development of innovative EUV lithography technology in the semiconductor industry

Co-creation is becoming an innovative way for new technology development (NTD). We propose a four-staged co-creation model drawn upon a backdrop of ‘knowledge cloud’ for value creation and long-term customer commitment resulting in risk-sharing associated with NTD. The model is elaborated through the case of a leading semiconductor lithography equipment manufacturer (ASML) developing a new extreme ultraviolet lithography technology by engaging the major stakeholders in customer co-investment programme. The model is generic and applicable to any technology-driven industry and may include more stakeholders of same or allied technology.     

Product variety and price strategy in the ski manufacturing industry

The present paper aims at examining the role of variety in the ski manufacturing industry and its relevance in firms’ price setting strategies. In particular, it intends to investigate and to empirically test three hypotheses concerning the relations between: product quality and prices; variety in technical characteristics and prices; variety in service characteristics and prices. Our empirical investigation finds that prices are positively affected by product quality and positively affected by variety in service characteristics. This means that a high degree of product variety allows firms to charge a premium price on consumers, who are able to find the product that best meets their needs and are therefore willing to pay a higher price. By contrast, variety in technical characteristics negatively impacts prices. In a context where a dominant design has emerged and new varieties are not radically different from each other, the gains in economies of scale and scope outweigh the costs of the increased flexibility in the equipment required to produce variety.

服装行业应用IE技术浅议

阐述了工业工程的概念,分析了服装行业的特点以及在服装行业应用IE技术的必要型,对IE在服装行业的主要应用领域做了重点的探讨.     

Knowledge dynamics in a network industry

In this paper, we model the impact of networks on knowledge growth in an innovating industry. Specifically, we compare two mediums of knowledge exchange: random interaction, and the case in which interaction occurs on a fixed architecture. In a simulation study, we investigate how the medium of knowledge exchange contributes to knowledge growth under different scenarios related to the industry's innovative potential. We measure innovative potential by considering the extent to which knowledge can be codified, and the available technological opportunities. Our results tend to support the conjecture that spatial clustering generates higher long-run knowledge growth rates in industries characterized by highly tacit knowledge, while the opposite is true when the degree of codification is important.     

加入WTO对中国汽车工业的影响

中国加入WTO,对不同的产业将产生不同的影响。在一些中国具有相对竞争优势的行业如外贸、港口、航运、纺织等行业中将会产生一定的正面影响,而对国内企业竞争压力较大的行业主要在电讯、商业、农业等领域及诸如汽车、电子等产业领域,其中目前关注较多的主要是汽车产业。 目前中国汽车行业的条块分割、自我封闭、重复引进和重复建设现象十分严重。这种现象导致了中国汽车行业的整体实力不强,几家主要的汽车生产厂家虽然在国内相对而言竞争力较强,但一旦加入WTO,直接面对国外著名汽车生产厂家的竞争,以目前的技术实力和生产能力实难与之抗衡。目前我国汽车关税为100％ (80％关税加20％其他费用),而一旦中国加入WTO,汽车进口关税将可能在2005     

广东省纺织业技术创新模式研究

介绍了广东省纺织业技术引进、消化吸收、创新的现状,根据广东纺织企业几个典范,重点剖析各企业的创新模式特征,提出了技术创新模式的应用范围及趋势,对促进我国纺织业技术创新发展有着积极意义和借鉴价值。     

我国钢铁行业对外投资的区位选择与策略构思

根据我国钢铁行业发展的现状与问题所在,结合世界钢铁行业发展状况,筛选出适宜对外投资的产品群以及目标投资地。通过对目标投资地的特点分析,识别出投资中可能面临的风险,对风险发生的可能性及危害性大小进行分析,有针对性地提出应对风险的建议。     

服装行业应用IE技术浅议

阐述了工业工程的概念，分析了服装行业的特点以及在服装行业应用IE技术的必要型，对IE在服装行业的主要应用领域做了重点的探讨。     

Government funding strategy in technology programs

Industrial R&D in a market economy is mainly implemented in the private sector, therefore public funding is a very important tool of government to guide private R&D activities. This paper investigates the experience of funding national programs in a number of industrialized countries, and reaches some preliminary conclusions: (a) To reduce opportunistic behavior and ingrain intrinsic incentive in firms, both competition and cost-sharing principles should be used concurrently in underwriting firms' R&D projects. (b) Competition principles can be applied across many candidate projects around the same time or a series of one-of-a-kind projects over a longer time horizon. (c) The major threat to application of competition principles is that there is no “real competition” due to few qualified candidates in specific technological fields or in some, especially small, countries. (d) In practice, the appropriate cost-sharing level is difficult to determine. Fifty-fifty is used as a rule of thumb in many countries to simplify the decision making and circumvent “bounded rationality.” (e) Full cost endorsement may be another “quantum” alternative for projects urged by government but not felt to be very relevant by firms.     

New technology and the economic organization of the clothing industry

The economic organization of an industry is ultimately determined by the cost functions of its component firms. The costs that matter for the competitive state of an industry are not just long-run variable costs but also the costs of entry to and exit from the industry, and the joint costs of different products that the firms in the industry produce. In the clothing industry the costs of creating and implementing new designs is a further important factor affecting competition between firms. Since costs are largely determined by technology, we expect repercussions on the organization of the industry when technology changes. Application of the new information technologies in the clothing industry will encourag agglomerations by growth and by merger, with larger firms producing a wider range of products and introducing new products faster than hitherto. Trends in the geographic organization of production will also be reversed.     

Factor market structure and technology choice in the Colombian brick industry

This paper examines the relationship between factor markets and an industry structure such that capital-intensity is correlated with size, and firms of different sizes coexist in the long run. Empirical evidence shows that wages vary positively with firm size after correcting for education, experience, turnover and firm location. Secondary source evidence suggests that capital access differs across entrepreneurs, according to their positions in Colombian society. These assumptions are combined in a model which can generate the industry structure observed. The alternative hypothesis that capital access improves over a firm's lifetime, so that industry structure represents a growth path, is examined and rejected.     

浅议如何创新移动通信业的营销策略

随着移动通信业的迅猛发展,移动通信企业的市场拓展将变得愈发困难,规模的扩张将变得愈发有限,移动通信业的买方市场已经形成.为此,移动通信企业必须实施有效的营销策略,凸显其与竞争对手的差异与优势,才能在激烈的竞争中立于不败之地.本文在分析移动通信业营销策略特点与现状的基础上,提出了进行营销创新,有效实施营销策略的对策及建议.     

Science policy mechanism and technology development strategy in the developing countries

The strengthening of science and technology is essential for economic growth in the developing countries. Effective science policy mechanisms do not suffice. An adequate infrastructure must be established—one that is conducive to this task. The paper focuses on the roles of government and industry in creating a favorable environment.     

产业选择:"走出去"战略决策之核心

我国发展海外投资的目标必须体现国家产业政策的客观要求,反映宏观经济的总体目标,也就是通过开展海外投资来带动本国产业结构的重组和优化。对外投资产业选择的标准一、具有比较优势的产业应当看到,我国在世界经济中具有一定的比较优势和竞争能力经过五十年的建设,我国建成了一个相对完备的工业体系,尤其是改革开放二十年来,我国轻工、纺织家电、重化工等加工业经过技术引进暨技术改造都具备了相当的竞争力,其中许多企业已经基本上与国际接轨,达到或初步达到国际中上游的水平。可以预料的是,在今后相当一段时期内,我国在中间技术的制造业中…