A policy perspective on incremental innovation in small and medium sized enterprises

The increased importance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in industrial economies is explained and the very large variance in their degree of participation in the innovation process is established. Evidence from Canadian research clarifies the difficulties that smidl and medium sized firms, even in technology intensive industries, experience in developing new products and implementing new designs. Innovation theory is reviewed and the importance of inputs from specialist consultants is established for SMEs undertaking incremental innovation. Transaction costs concepts are then used to explain the difficulties SMEs encounter in arranging these linkages. A recommended form of policy to help to correct this type of market imperfection is derived and used to describe a gap in Canadian policies and to evaluate initiatives in Australia and UK.     

Organizational Innovation Capability: A Driver for Competitive Superiority in Marketing Channels

This paper investigates the interplay between innovation and competitive superiority in the context of channel management by adopting a capabilities view. The relevance for channel marketing and management scholars is that we developed an environment-strategy-value contingency model to address the focal phenomenon. Our empirical results clearly support the key argument that managerial and technological innovations play an essential role in understanding of how competitive superiority is achieved in constantly evolving marketing channels. As such, our contingency factors involved have a significant intermediate role in each of the research contexts examined, indicating that the innovation capability has a channel specific profile.     

建立我国风险投资机构报告体系初探

风险投资是创新的催化剂。随着国内外风险投资的不断发展,构建风险投资报告体系迫在眉睫。借鉴欧洲、美国、英国等发达国家或地区风险投资报告体系的主要内容,对构建我国特色的风险投资机构报告体系提出了建议。     

Joint Management of Emission Abatement and Technological Innovation for Stock Externalities

We investigate how emission abatement and technological innovation provide different solutions to reduce pollutant emissions. In the case of a stock externality emission abatement leads to a smooth and continuous adjustment of emissions. Conversely, technological innovation has to be interpreted as an option on a less polluted environment and can justify the use of a pollution threshold above which it is optimal to start a research and development programme for a less polluting technology. It is shown that technological innovation interferes with the traditional emission abatement approach. The optimal abatement level is logically lowered once the less polluting technology is available; nevertheless a temporary increase in emissions is optimal during the research and development period. The usual Pigouvian tax system proves to remain an efficient corrective instrument. A numerical application to the Greenhouse effect is provided.     

How does a cluster relocate across the border? The case of information technology cluster in the Taiwan-Suzhou region

Since the end of the Cold War, cross-border regions have proliferated at the borders of formal socialist countries, especially in China. Existing accounts of these emergences treat them either at the macro-level, focusing on political initiatives, or at the micro-level, with emphasis on social and economic relations. This paper uses the Taiwan-Suzhou cross-border region as a case study for suggesting a meso-level approach, arguing that as a result of continuous interactions between individual Taiwanese information technology firms and opportunity structures generated by the selective opening of the Chinese border, the formation of cross-border high-tech regions is shaped and determined at the level of the industrial system. The industrial system acts as a platform for coordination and cooperation between local elites and foreign investors and among individual firms within this system. The formation of the cross-border high-tech region thus involves the relocation and institutional re-embedding of industrial systems across the border, which has been accompanied by the systemic building of Taiwanese firms on the one hand, and the institutional innovation of Chinese local states on the other.     

零售企业破坏性创新及其制约因素：一个理论框架

自中国零售市场对外开放以来，本土零售企业一直在复制与模仿外资零售企业的道路上艰难前行，虽有发展，但始终无法超越外资零售企业，更无法获得可持续的竞争优势。文章认为，本土零售企业只有走破坏性创新道路才有可能获得长足发展，进而阐述了本土零售企业进行破坏性创新的空间基础和破坏性创新过程，并对阻碍零售企业破坏性创新的因素进行了探讨，这些因素可分为四类：行为采纳障碍、思想障碍、风险障碍、创新过程的先期障碍。     

围绕首都经济发展创新北京高职教育

高等职业教育具有区域性、服务性、职业性和开放性的显著特点,强调以服务于区域、行业经济和社会发展为主旨。北京高职教育必须适应首都经济发展的需求,围绕首都经济发展的特色定位,创新北京高职教育的办学模式和人才培养模式,彰显北京高职教育的特色。     

关于北部湾经济区(北海)科技创新投融资服务体系建设的思考——源于北海市生产力促进中心科技金融服务实践

建设北部湾经济区(北海)科技创新投融资服务体系是北海市生产力促进中心开展科技金融服务工作的出发点和落脚点。一方面,通过体系建设可以有效缓解本地区科技创新投融资困难,促进科技成果转化;另一方面,通过体系建设可以拓展北海市生产力促进中心服务领域,延长服务链,实现良性和可持续发展。文章针对北海科技创新投融资现状,思考体系建设的总体目标、基本架构、功能设计、近期任务、三年规划及保障措施。     

创新质量管理机制推进企业卓越发展

为满足企业发展和质量管理提升需要，兰州石化分公司根据重组后的质量管理现状，从业务整合入手，建立了专业化、扁平化、一体化运行的质量管理新机制；通过导入“零缺陷”、“精细化”等管理思想和方法，推进卓越绩效管理模式，推进质量管理从符合向卓越型转变。从产品质量管理向企业质量经营转变，以全员、全过程、全方位管理为基本原则，以过程管理为基本方法，以质量攻关和QC小组活动为基本手段，以PDCA循环和持续改进为基本法则，建立了完整的质量指标体系和绩效评价体系，并有效应用于企业管理的全过程，企业质量经营绩效和客户满意水平大幅改进，达到行业领先水平。     

基于自主创新的国家创新体系的内涵和构建

在国家创新体系研究的基础上,根据自主创新的特点和要求,界定企业、高等院校、科研机构、社会中介组织和政府作为自主创新主体的内涵,构建以提高自主创新能力为核心的国家自主创新体系。