Innovation And Inter-Firm Co-Operation: The Case Of The West Midlands

Drawing upon the innovative milieux and industrial districts literature, the paper provides substantial empirical evidence that firms have a greater chance of being innovative if they co-operate with other firms over innovation, albeit undertaking no investment in RLD. This is an important result especially for small firms. In particular, the paper focuses on inter-firm cwperation along the supply chain, using a swey of firms in the West Midlands to investi-gate co-operation over innovation between suppliers and buyers. A probit model is used to test the link between innovation performance and four innovation inputs: R&D expenditure, R&D personnel, networking with suppliers and networking with client firms.     

Analysing The Evolution Of Industry: The Relevance Of The Telecommunications Industry

This paper analyses the fundamental forces involved in the evolution of the telecommunications industry. It is suggested that there are five major forces that together drive the evolution of this industry: specialisation, competition, financial markets. endogenous consumer demand and permeable industry boundaries. An important research task is to further elaborate on the boundaries of not only the industry but of the industrial system taken as a whole.     

Pursuing a biotechnology system of innovation in Lithuania: a conceptual framework for effective policy intervention

The focus of this paper is on Lithuania, whose government released an ambitious innovation strategy to become an innovative services hub for Northern Europe by 2015, and an innovation hub by 2020. Biotechnology has been identified as a strategic sector, and whether Lithuania will be able to achieve its ambition of a fully functioning biotechnology sectoral system of innovation will be explored. With the Lithuanian government declaring that they will intervene to achieve their innovation goals, this paper argues that sound policy intervention is possible and can be done in a way that avoids the limitations of past systemic approaches. The policy approach presented is based on a modified extended industry life cycle, and the movement of system structures through three phases – background, pre-emergence and emergence – and explains how each phase lays the groundwork for transition to the next phase.     

产业生态：产业经济学研究的第四个领域

产业活动与环境的冲突成为现代产业经济学研究的一个新课题。产业生态作为产业经济学研究的一个重要组成部分,既为解决资源与环境问题提供了破解,也丰富了产业经济学理论体系,是对产业经济学的创新性研究。论文将产业生态作为产业经济学研究的第四个研究领域,与产业组织、产业结构、产业区域有机结合起来,构建了产业经济学理论框架,对产业生态理论与实践进行了探索。     

走出金融危机阴影的印度科技——简述2009年印度科技发展的新特点

2009年,印度科技在金融危机与气候变化双重压力与挑战下稳步发展,研发投入、能力建设、科技政策、科技产业等方面均有新进展、新成就。本文简要综述了印度2009年科技发展的总体情况。     

生态工业园工业共生中的政府作用——欧洲与美国的经验

文章在回顾工业共生理论的基础上,通过对欧洲政府在生态工业园工业共生规划中的成功,美国政府在生态工业园工业共生规划中的失败的比较,得出结论:工业共生系统面临着信任危机和高度依赖的要挟风险,因此需要政府介入其中。政府要分阶段提供公共政策与财政支持帮助共生体形成。首先,要引入共生所需的核心企业,创造企业交流的平台,增强企业之间的信任;其次,帮助核心企业创造稳定的商业合作机会,使共生成为可能,提高资源的有效利用率;最后,由政府从一些公共项目(垃圾和废水的再处理)开始,作为一种示范效应,促成新的更完善的共生体的形成。     

重点开发区域产业集聚的机理分析——以广西梧州市为例

重点开发区域是承接产业转移和产业集聚的重要区域,以广西的省级重点开发区——梧州市为例,通过对梧州市2006—2009年招商引资的数据分析发现:梧州市承接转移产业转移以劳动密集型和资源密集型产业为主,承接产业转移与地方资源禀赋相关性强,产业转移来源地以广东、广西和福建为主,产业园区是承接产业转移和产业集聚的主要载体。进一步分析认为:东部地区生产成本上升是劳动密集型产业转移的推力因素,较为宽松的资源环境压力和地方招商引资的优惠政策是梧州产业集聚的拉力因素,开放程度提高与资源依赖性增强、以及廉价的运输成本使得资源密集型产业转移和集聚成为可能。寻找企业最小综合成本的区位是我国现阶段产业转移的主导因素,因此,重点开发区域产业集聚是地域功能属性、综合成本和产业特性共同作用的结果。     

战略性企业社会责任概念界定与动因分析

本研究认为,战略性企业社会责任可以界定为慈善类社会责任的一种,即企业将善举视为有利于改善企业长期利润和发展的社会责任管理理念和实践。其产生的根本动因是为了保护股东利益的长期最大化,但因长期利益很难量化或验证,所以其驱动力有限。认真研究相关问题,如概念界定、产生动因、存在的问题与未来发展等,对当代中国企业正确认识和管理企业社会责任具有重要的启示意义。     

Between Late-Industrialisation and Globalisation: The Hybridisation of Labour Relations among Leading South Korean Firms

South Korea's (hereinafter Korea) labour relations illuminate the possibilities for the ‘hybridisation’ of non-liberal capitalism under globalisation. Unlike the well-known German and Japanese advanced non-liberal capitalisms, Korea appeared to be far less conducive to ‘hybridisation’. First, inclusive labour practices were not well developed. Second, it had introduced comprehensive economic liberalisation following the financial crash of 1998. Despite these unfavourable conditions, leading Korean firms have tended to maintain or even introduce non-liberal practices than to discard them. The resulting melding of non-liberal and liberal practices (‘hybridisation’) can be traced to three legacies of late-industrialisation: state inclination to intervene during crises; countervailing power of labour at leading enterprises; and the intensity of big business rivalry as a force for the assimilation of inclusive practices. The effects of these legacies in generating mixed practices will be illustrated using firm-level case studies from Korea's two leading export sectors. It will also be argued that Korea's pattern of labour relations hybridity is not conducive to convergence with extant forms of advanced capitalism. Hence Korea is more suitably denoted as a form of late-industrialisation hybrid capitalism whose experience is relevant to other late-developers as they achieve ‘advanced’ status.     

基于产业布局视角的信息服务业发展模式研究

产业布局的科学化、合理化,有利于形成与资源优势和区位优势相结合的特色经济,促进产业结构的升级和国民经济的协调健康发展。文章从我国信息服务业的布局现状入手,分析各区域信息服务业发展的特点,运用产业布局理论提出我国信息服务业发展模式的总体思路。