scholarly journals Networks as Facilitators of Innovation in Technology-Based Industries: The Case of Flat Glass

2020 ◽  
pp. 441-460
Author(s):  
Nebahat Tokatli
Keyword(s):  
Glass Industry ◽  
Flat Glass ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Secondary Processing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
High Technology Industry ◽  
Technology Industries ◽  
High Technology Industries

AbstractIn this chapter, I question the extent to which the networks of the flat glass industry facilitated innovation in the past and continue to do so now. So far, students of technology-based industries have focused their attention on a number of high-technology industries including, for example, biotechnology. Since the manufacturing and secondary processing of flat glass require the application of a degree of technological expertise, the flat glass industry is also considered a technology-based industry, though not a high-technology industry in the sense that biotechnology is. This particularity of the industry enables me not only to provide a reasonably complete account of the extent to which the networks of the flat glass industry facilitate innovation, but also to explore whether or not we need a different sort of network thinking for this particular industry—different from the thinking that the students of high-technology industries subscribe to as they study, for example, biotechnology.

Facilitating Innovation in Opto-Electronics in a National, Global, and Regional Context

10.1068/c0222 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Hendry ◽  
James Brown ◽  
Hans-Dieter Ganter ◽  
Susanne Hilland
Keyword(s):  
High Technology ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Government Action ◽  
The Past ◽  
Regional Clusters ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Support For Innovation ◽  
High Technology Industry ◽  
Resource Support

During the past twenty years, the emphasis of policy towards high-technology industry has shifted from national innovation systems to take account of globalisation and the formation of regional clusters. Support for high-technology sectors now takes place at a number of levels—regional, national, and international. However, the extent to which firms operate in these three arenas, and how relevant government action is for the needs and behaviour of firms in respect of these is open to question. The paper reports on a study into innovation in Germany and the United Kingdom, in a particular industry—opto-electronics—which has a highly global character, but is also characterised by concentrations of firms in clusters. The contrasting experiences of firms in two regions—Wales and Thuringia—and the different policy emphasis of the regional government provide a test for the relevance, appropriateness, and impact of government policies towards high-technology industry. By focusing on the experiences of innovating firms, the authors provide a conceptually rich understanding of innovation in terms of two processes, which are often conflated in public policy—stimulating knowledge and technology transfer, and providing resource support. The paper concludes with a suggestion that support for innovation needs to be based around the twin concepts of redundancy and systems thinking, and a series of questions policymakers need to keep in mind are proposed.

A Coevolutionary Model as a Collaborative Mechanism for the Business Exchange in the High-technology Industrial Value Chain

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-207
Author(s):  
Sajal Kabiraj ◽  
Dwarika Prasad Uniyal
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Supply Chain Collaboration ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
Current State ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Industrial Value Chain ◽  
Technology Industries ◽  
High Technology Industries

The High-technology industries are highly capital-intensive enterprises dealing with short life cycle products, offering potential to simultaneously examine different perspectives of collaborative relationships. Although the extant literature on collaborative activities in business enterprises has progressed along the different stages in the industrial value chain, there is lack of cohesion in the current state of the art. Conceptual clarity and contextual description in particular are dispersed and disintegrated in the current state. In order to integrate the literature and highlight its contributions, it is essential to provide a more technical description and a discussion on supply chain collaboration from various perspectives of the High-technology industry. In this article, the issues pertaining to responsiveness, collaborative development practices, strategic procurement and information technology (IT), and control-oriented approaches are presented. By effectively doing so, we provide a comprehensive literature review to determine the scope for future research in the High-technology industries and other similar manufacturing environments.

scholarly journals Is Virtual Reality (VR) Becoming an Effective Application for the Market Opportunity in Health Care, Manufacturing, and Entertainment Industry?

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Kim
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
New Products ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Market Opportunity ◽  
Virtual Reality Technology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
Processing Data ◽  
High Technology Industry

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how virtual reality technology has been blossoming and applying in the past few years to quickly become the next big new products development in high technology industry. Thanks to this technology being backed by major tech and manufacturing firms, such as Facebook, Ford, and Sony, it has shown much promise in impacting our lives by bringing something completely new to our experience of processing data. There are three sectors in particular where it benefits most; healthcare, manufacturing, and entertainment. The paper explains in detail how these areas are positively impacted and applied.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document