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Verso l’innovazione Made in China?
No full textMade in China 2025 places a heavy focus on innovation and technology for the fulfillment of its objectives. However, the widespread diffusion and persistence of limited technology innovation practices among Chinese businesses raise doubts and concerns about their capacity to deploy the necessary innovation capabilities for the achievements foreseen by the plan. By using Chinese and international datasets, this contribution illustrates the situation of innovation in China, provides direct evidence about a gap within firms’ knowledge absorption process, discusses the influence of this gap and some of its determinants. Policy implications useful to trace scenarios about the perspectives of Made in China 2025 are drawn
La gestione innovativa dei sistemi turistici
No full textIl volume sistematizza più di sei anni di esperienze collezionate nello svolgimento di attività di ricerca applicata e progetti pilota mirati alla realizzazione ed alla diffusione delle Information and Communication Technologies (Ict) per lo sviluppo e la gestione delle destinazioni turistiche.
L'opera vuole contribuire ad una maggiore comprensione della rilevanza e delle dinamiche dell'integrazione dell'offerta turistica locale per lo sviluppo ed il (ri)lancio competitivo delle destinazioni turistiche e, in particolare, delle opportunità offerte dall'innovazione abilitata dalle Ict nel facilitare i processi di trasformazione delle destinazioni turistiche in sistemi turistici integrati.
A tal fine si affrontano vari aspetti: dall'integrazione turistica come motore dello sviluppo locale e il ruolo delle Ict in questo processo alla diffusione e all'impatto di internet e dell'e-Business nel turismo ed in particolare nelle destinazioni turistiche, dalle tecnologie e piattaforme abilitanti fino alle strategie di diffusione delle stesse ed alle modalità di formazione di capitale umano progettate e messe in pratica.
L'opera, a cavallo tra ricerca e pratica, si pone quindi come uno strumento utile per tutte quelle figure, accademiche e professionali, impegnate in progetti di sviluppo di sistemi turistici locali e in attività di formazione su tali tematiche
State-of-the-Art Research on Technology Innovation Management in China
No full textThe two latest Five-Year Plans of China call for an increasing focus of the whole country on technology-based innovation. Moreover, China’s ambition to become an innovation-oriented nation has attracted widespread international interest and academic studies in technology and innovation management. However by now, there is still not a rigorous amount of the research in this field as regards to China. This paper reports a comprehensive review of the research published between 2002 and 2011 in twelve top
technology and innovation management international journals. Overall, a sample
of 241 relevant articles in 780 issues is used as the basis for the study. The result is a map of the main research topics, their influence, and the availability of tested empirical data, which traces a state-of-the-art research on technology innovation
management in China. Discussion on the map draws avenues for further research
and insights for both researchers and policy makers on why, where and how to advance knowledge in the field, with a particular focus on implications for developing cooperation at the enterprise level
Making R&D efforts profitable: the role of absorptive capacity and policy implications in an emerging economy setting
No full texthis paper explores the influence of a firm's absorptive capacity on the profitability of one thousand ninety-six Chinese firms. In addition to extending the findings of prior studies on the positive effects of absorptive capacity on a firm's performance in the context of an emerging economy, empirical results support the main hypothesis of the positive mediating role of absorptive capacity in the relationship between R&D efforts and profitability. These effects, together with the attempt to investigate absorptive capacity outside the usual R&D context using a capability-based operationalization, will lead the discussion towards the role of public policies in enhancing the impact of a firm's internal R&D efforts through sustaining the development of their "soft" absorptive capacity with complementary investments in compensation, motivation and the development of human resources
Climbing the value-added ladder? Explaining technological innovation in Chinese enterprises
Full text linkThe transformation of China into an innovation-oriented nation and leading science power is now topping the agenda of Chinese government. Technological innovation is seen at the hearth of this process, and enterprises have been called to be the key driving force of this transformation. The question is: to which extent Chinese enterprises are ready to do so? The basic assumption of this research is that this depends onthe extent to which Chinese enterprises will be capable to seize the market opportunities arising from technological development and exploitation. The study of the factors influencing those capabilities is the main focus of this research. More specifically the objective is to investigate whether, and if so, how and what under conditions some specific enterprises' internal characteristics and external networks attributes, as well as the effects of formal and informal institutions, influence Chinese enteprises techological entrepreneurship capabilities. The poster reports details the research being carried out, findings obtained and proposes avenures for further studies
L'imprenditorialità tecnologica con carattersitiche cinesi
No full textThe latest 11th and 12th Five-Years Plans emphasize technological innovation as a key driver of China’s transition towards a more sustainable growth model, based on value-added manufacturing, the development of the internal market and an increasing reliance on domestic innovation.
Technological entrepreneurship, by means of which new technologies are brought to the market, can prove beneficial for Country’s industrial upgrading, creation of qualified jobs, international competitiveness and, ultimately, to foster its brand new growth model and ambitions.
With the aim to give an overview of Chinese technological entrepreneurship, this contribution discusses its overall context, the key players involved, the main practices of Chinese technology enterprises and develops some considerations on the existence and nature of its difference
Technology-Driven Entrepreneurship in Emerging Regions
No full textIn Chapter 9, Petti employs official sources and literature, as well as cases and data collected through field research, to provide an overview of Chinese technology-driven entrepreneurship. To do so, the context, the actors, the practices and preliminary evaluations of the impact of some key factors will be illustrated and discussed, after which the peculiar features of Chinese technology-driven entrepreneurship and their persistence over time will be considered. The overall aim is to ascertain whether, and to what extent, the Chinese example offers different insights from what is usually believed, written and practised in Silicon Valley in the USA and the European Union (EU), as well as whether these are, or may represent, an extension of the current conventional models and knowledge
Factors influencing technological entrepreneurship in Chinese firms: evidence from Guangdong
No full textTechnological entrepreneurship concerns the transformation of potentially viable technological opportunities into profitable businesses. Technological entrepreneurship is recognized as a key driver of successful technological innovation. In addition, matching technological opportunities with local market needs is a characteristic feature of Chinese technology firms’ catch-up and innovation potential. However, extant research on technology and innovation management has yet to fully include entrepreneurship insights in the study of innovation, especially in Chinese firms. With this aim, the paper identifies and investigates the relationships between a number of internal and external factors and technological entrepreneurship. Using a multi-disciplinary and multi-level literature review and findings collected through case studies and interviews in 74 Guangdong technology firms, the paper presents possible explanations concerning the relationship explored and discusses their theoretical and practical relevance, with particular reference to the role of support policies, IPR enforcement and personal relationships
Exploring relationships existing between virtualness, knowledge management and firm's strategy
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