Business partnering—a driving force for innovation

Win-Win situations are used and also created by companies which cooperate with each other, complement each other on a synergy basis and work together fairly and competently. Today, business partnering has therefore become a key qualification for companies. This should not depend alone on the commitment of individual persons.This article describes how Siemens has organized its company, services and products using partnering solutions and how it has installed this concept as an intrinsically dynamic process. Thanks to institutionalized partnering, B2B interfaces have been established to form a rational alliance, offering benefits to all involved, and can be used regardless of the size of the company. These offerings generate Win-Win situations themselves—and provide individual employees in large companies with a structural framework for a personal partnering initiative.     

Measuring new product success: an empirical investigation of Australian SMEs

New product development (NPD) has long been recognised as one of the corporate core functions. However, measuring new product success has remained elusive. This paper attempts to examine several conceptual issues underlining the measurement of new product success and the measurement practice adopted in Australian small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The sample included 276 SMEs from two most innovative industries: chemical and machinery industries. Results have indicated that four factors underline the commonly used success measurement: financial performance, objective market acceptance, subjective market acceptance, and product-level measures. These four factors are related to each other and can be used to well predict the overall measurement. The most frequently used specific measures in Australian SMEs are customer acceptance, customer satisfaction, product performance, and quality.     

An institutional analysis of supply chain innovations in global marketing channels

The adoption of sophisticated supply chain innovations by trading partners in global channels of distribution is often limited by the institutional context of the international transaction. In particular, the regulatory, normative, and cultural-cognitive elements of institutional environments around the world can enhance or inhibit the ability of trading partners to craft the contractual, ownership, and social elements of institutional arrangements required by an innovation. Because supply chain innovations often require costly, new investments and activity sets, firms may be reluctant to participate in an innovation unless a new institutional arrangement can be crafted to provide adequate safeguards and guarantees. A conceptual model is developed to explain the role of institutions in the successful deployment of supply chain innovations in global marketing channels.     

Machine learning in individual claims reserving

Machine learning techniques make it feasible to calculate claims reserves on individual claims data. This paper illustrates how these techniques can be used by providing an explicit example in individual claims reserving.     

政府补贴能否促进高新技术企业的自主创新？——来自中关村的证据

中国政府对高新技术企业投入了大量补贴以激励它们创新,但是对补贴效果的研究并未达成一致结论。基于中关村3万多个高新技术企业2001-2012年的观察值,本文同时采用PSM与DID法对政府补贴的效果进行了研究,结果发现:第一,整体而言,政府补贴显著提高了创新经费支出、新产品销售收入和专利申请数量;第二,进一步将创新细分为自主创新和购买引进新技术之后发现,政府补贴存在“挤出效应”:被补贴企业的自主创新明显下降,而购买引进新技术显著增加;第三,政府补贴对企业的短期创新激励有显著的促进作用,但是对长期创新激励的促进作用不显著。本文对高新技术企业的补贴效果提供了实证绩效评估,所得出的结论有助于政府优化和调整激励创新政策。     

Innovation performance and the role of clustering at the local enterprise level: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis approach

ABSTRACT

This study, utilizes an innovative methodological approach, fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), investigating the drivers of heterogeneous geographies characterizing English Local Economic Partnerships (LEPs). The fsQCA technique offers a novel configurational alternative to regression-based approaches investigating the effects of clustering in conjunction with firm-level innovation, university third-sector activity (TSA) and entrepreneurship, on LEPs innovation performance. The findings, offer contributions to the theories of industrial clusters and innovation, regional innovation systems, knowledge spillovers and entrepreneurial university innovation within LEPs. First, supporting fsQCAs, no individual variable generates either a positive/negative innovation outcome. Second, while all positive innovation recipes include presence of the cluster variable, for negative innovation recipes, only one does not identify absence of clustering as relevant. Given that the cluster variable does not appear in any recipes without at least one of the other variables suggests activity concentration does not exist in isolation to generate innovation outcomes without other localized conditions existing, e.g. firm-level innovation. Third, there is evidence for the non-cluster-based aspects of knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship with respect to university activity and the entrepreneurial university concept. Instead, roles of entrepreneurship and university TSA, while important, appear to be more peripheral and geographically context specific.     

现代农牧业纵横一体化综合效益及创新模式  ———以北方农牧交错带为例

该文基于农牧交错带的资源特点、产业特色、地理位置特殊与生态脆弱的区域特征,分析了该区域各种农牧业一体化经营模式的综合效益,以及一体化经营模式创新。结论显示:农牧业"横向一体化"是增加农户收入较优的经营模式,农牧业"纵横一体化"是增收型、资源节约型和生态保护型的现代农牧业经营模式,现代农牧业"纵横一体化"创新型模式为:"种养业农户+合作社+公司+专业市场+产业协会"经营模式。     

创新型科技人才的典型特质及培育政策建议——基于84名创新型科技人才的实证分析

对84名创新型科技人才的研究发现,创新意识和创新能力、深厚的专业积累与稳定的研究方向、敏锐的观察力、严谨的方法和系统思维能力是创新型科技人才的4个典型特质。培育创新型科技人才,政府要重点塑造有利于创新的教育文化,发挥科技评价的创新导向作用,完善高层次人才的引进政策。各类科研机构也要加强对科技人才的教育培训,建立符合科技人才成长规律的科技评价体系,从薪酬体系、选拔机制、发展渠道和科研基础建设等方面强化对科技人才的创新激励。     

苏里格气田建设中的管理模式创新与技术创新

天然气是"绿色能源",21世纪是天然气能源的世纪。加快我国最大的气田——苏里格气田的勘探开发建设进程,是推动我国天然气工业发展的重要战略举措。在开发建设中,秉持"科技、绿色、和谐"的理念,通过技术与管理创新,形成了12项开发配套技术,探索出了"5 1"合作开发模式,创建了"六统一,三共享"管理机制,并全面推行"标准化设计、模块化建设、数字化管理",最大限度地保护了环境。苏里格气田规模有效开发的配套技术与管理体系,对国内类似油气田的开发建设具有普遍的启示意义。     

财务管理专业《内部控制学》课程的教学改革方案设计

在我国当前内部控制的教学模式相对落后、教学改革几乎空白的背景下,本文以四川师范大学商学院财务管理专业为依托,针对《内部控制学》课程的教学内容制定了“实践模拟教学体系”,为保证教学目标的实现构建了“组合式教学法”.灵活多样的教学方法相互融合且交替使用于不同的教学内容中,由此设计出一套完整严密的教学改革总体方案.