High tech Industry

Metadata provide information on companies' products and technologies. A network analysis enables detection of specializations and complementarities. An investigation of the network allows to identify emerging industrial clusters. Metrics help to appreciate complementary innovation and market opportunity. Results of the network analysis show interesting policy implications. a b s t r a c t Clean-technology (clean-tech) is a large and increasing sector. Research and development (R&D) is the lifeline of the industry and innovation is fostered by a plethora of high-tech start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Any empirical-based attempt to detect the pattern of technological innovation in the industry is challenging. This paper proposes an investigation of innovation in clean-tech using metadata provided by CrunchBase. Metadata reveal information on markets, products, services and technologies driving innovation in the clean-tech industry worldwide and for San Francisco, the leader in clean-tech innovation with more than two hundred specialised companies. A network analysis using metadata is the employed methodology and the main metrics of the resulting networks are discussed from an economic point of view. The purpose of the paper is to understand specifically specializations and technological complementarities underlying innovative companies, detect emerging industrial clusters at the global and local/metropolitan level and, finally, suggest a way to realize whether observed start-ups, SMEs and clusters follow a technological path of complementary innovation and market opportunity or, instead, present a risk of lock-in. The discussion of the results of the network analysis shows interesting implications for energy policy, particularly useful from an operational point of view.

This paper articulates the relational capacity of the nation-state, in particular the strategic coupling with the private sector and the role of state-private sector interactions, as the main force that facilitated the formation of a high-technology industry cluster, Teheran Valley (TV) in Seoul, Korea. A cluster of ICT entrepreneurs sprouted in a business district in Seoul during the post-1997 financial crisis economic downturn. Unlike the prototypical state-led top-down high-technology industry cluster development, a historic analysis shows that behind this seemingly serendipitous rise of TV lay two decades of the Korean government’s efforts to build the ICT industry sector and the dialectic interplay between the state and ICT entrepreneurs. In the process, the Korean state continuously revised its mode of governing the ICT industry sector, which I term ‘relational governance’: During the period between 1980 and the early 2000s of the industrial upgrading, the governance system of the ICT industry sector shifted from centralized planning to selective de-regulation through close partnership with ICT entrepreneurs, and then later to a more flexible mode of governance where the state re-centralized ICT policy making functions, but devised indirect ways of supporting the emerging ICT SMEs.

The Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park (HSIP) has developed in the Hsinchu area for the two decades since 1981. It has provided an environment of innovation for stimulating the development of high-tech industries through the interaction of knowledge-based institutions and universities. This high-tech sector requires intensive R&D, continuous technology transfer and learning, development of a high-tech infrastructure, new generations of high-tech specialists, as well as government supports in order to integrate and promote the local industrial network. This paper investigates the form of the high-tech milieu surrounding the HSIP, and the effect of innovation on the development of firms based in the HSIP. The findings report the key successes of the HSIP and the formation of a high-tech environment and innovation network in the Hsinchu area. Finally, building on the results of further investigation and comments from interviewees, we propose a strategy of innovation-oriented development to further pursue development within the HSIP in response to the increasingly intense global competition.

The article presents a medium-term forecast of the development of the Russian nanoindustry, taking into account the assumed transition of the industry from the formation stage to the investment growth stage. Problems associated with the estimated output volumes of products in the Russian nanoindustry are considered, since the trends recorded in the primary statistical data are very far from reflecting the real situation due to the imperfection of the system of statistics of nano-containing products, as well as a reduction of state funding and a decline in the intensity of R&D in the industry. It is concluded that a full-fledged industry has not been yet completely formed in Russia and it actually exists only as a statistical phenomenon; in addition, the project really set different objectives from the declared creation of a breakthrough high-technology branch.

In this article, I examine HP’s e-Inclusion program and its implementation in India to show how the high-tech industry’s efforts to alleviate poverty profitably are guided by C. K. Prahalad’s ideas about the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP), and are framed as digital corporate citizenship activities. While the BoP highlights the importance of new markets for high-tech companies, the discourse of digital corporate citizenship creates an enabling environment in which transnational high-tech companies can gain political access to new consumers
at the BoP. The resulting digital corporate citizenship/BoP nexus leads to the extension of governments’ bureaucratic reach and the formation of electronic entrepreneurs.

Inter-firm R&D collaboration is valuable for companies when it helps them to gain complementary intellectual resources, access to diverse markets, share product development's cost, shorten the time to market of new products, and avoiding redundant expenditures. This kind of collaboration could be considered as a good way responding to the modern business world today which is dynamic, complex, and intensively competitive. This research therefore focus on the role of Intellectual property shared and used in Design service where inter-firm R&D collaboration is major activity, the supporting functions of IP management's core components developed in previous research. Conducting a survey from new product development managers of Taiwan's high-tech industry, this research's result shows that Know how-related intellectual property has positive effects on indicating factors of design service performance such as Time to market, productivity, quality, and efficiency. Another result indicates that four of IP management's core components are positive associated with the performance of design service, those core components are: Legalization capability, intra-firm relationship capability, collaboration formation capability, and main goal of collaboration.

We provide a brief but comprehensive overview of linkages between higher education and the high tech sector and study the major linkages in India. We find that the links outside of the labor market are weak. This is attributed to a regulatory structure that separates research from the university and discourages good faculty from joining, which erodes the quality of the intellectual capital necessary to generate new knowledge. In the labor market, we find a robust link between higher education and high-tech industry, but despite a strong private sector supply response to the growth of the high-tech industry, the quality leaves much to be desired. Poor university governance may be limiting both labor market and non-labor market linkages. Industry efforts to improve the quality of graduates are promising but over reliance on industry risks compromising workforce flexibility. Addressing the governance failures in higher education is necessary to strengthen the links between higher education and high tech industry.

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The Israeli extensive high-tech industry is examined in the light of a model that presents the process chain from knowledge and capital formation through innovation and invention to production. The deeper roots for the Israeli high-tech industry lie in Jewish cultural traits of scholastic learning and international communications, rather than in prolonged industrial development. Within a modern context, the industry based itself through a strong security accent, because of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The phases in the development of the Israeli hightech industry moved from the creation of a domestic base for R&D in information technology to a growing global one, blending between a leading domestic accumulation of knowledge, entrepreneurship, and limited capital on the one hand, and global capital and demands for technology on the other. The high-tech industry and the services for its operation are centred on metropolitan Tel-Aviv.

Knowledge Management (KM) is by now a recognized term, increasingly accepted in the corporate community. This research contributes a better understanding of its implementation by providing a list a factors, which though each seems self-evident, their combination, and the experience acquired in applying them would support practitioners applying KM, and constitute a stepping stone for researchers for deepening the knowledge about it.

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the funding and investment mechanism of
Taiwanese high-tech multinational corporations (MNCs) and clarify the whole development process
of global financial capitalism in Taiwanese high-tech sector. Especially, I try to illustrate the power
transformation process between Japanese consumer-electronics giants and Taiwanese high-tech
MNCs from the funding and investment point of view. More specifically, how did Taiwanese hightech
MNCs invest a huge amount of money in the equipment of investment and R&D to expand
productivity and upgrade the level of technology, drove Japanese competitors out of the global
market? This is the main question of my paper. I propose that various factors: entrepreneurship, the
relationship between innovation and financial capital, financial capitalism, resource dependence
relations during their social network, the difference between Japanese and Taiwanese financial and
management system affect the power transformation process between Japanese high-tech industry
and Taiwanese counterparts. The goal of this paper is to examine how the relationships between the
development of financial system in Taiwan and technological innovation of high-tech MNCs, inter
and intra-corporate funding network in Taiwan had an extraordinary impact on diminishing
international competitiveness of Japanese consumer-electronics giants, Taiwanese high-tech MNCs
grabbed the opportunity of revolutionary development in the global capitalist economy.