Intra-Firm and Inter-Firm Learning in the Context of Start-Up Companies

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Mäkinen
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Innovative Drug ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Critical Feature ◽  
Start Up ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Interfirm Learning ◽  
National Business

Organizational learning has come to be seen as a critical feature of a firm's success. The concept captures the sense of a firm being involved in a process of continuous adaptation to a changing environment and drawing on organizational knowledge and competencies that can be brought to bear on any particular circumstance. Successful firms are good ‘learners’. Acquisition of new knowledge and competencies is especially important in high-technology companies. This paper asks what have been the main firm-specific knowledge and competencies of pharmaceutical start-up companies, and considers how the start-up companies have enlarged their knowledge and competencies through intra-firm and interfirm learning in a national business environment. The empirical issues are addressed in the context of four small innovative drug discovery companies in the Turku area of Finland. These are highly focused, specialized R&D companies that have been established as spin-off companies from larger firms or universities. They also saw the founding of a new cooperative pharmaceutical network as an essential response to the apparent resource gap.

The Importance of Knowledge Transfer to Industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Emília Madudová ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Divergent Thinking ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Creative People ◽  
Industry Needs ◽  
Firm Owners

The paper examines the specific knowledge universities transfer to industry, reflecting to creative industry needs. As results shows, the most asked alumni competences should be tacit knowledge and divergent thinking. Divergent thinking influence the creativity. Creativity is often defined as the ability to develop new and useful ideas, but in deep literature review, we can see few irregularities and different definitions of creativity. The paper also evaluates the importance of creativity from business environment point of view and from the creative industry perspective and creative firm owners. As point of view. Another key finding is, that to educate creative people will be one of the key competitive advantage, because mainly the ability to create and disseminate knowledge is often at the heart of the organization's competitive advantage not only in creative industry, but in transport industry as well.

International knowledge transfer and Russian social policy: The case of gender mainstreaming

2020 ◽  
pp. 146801812096932
Author(s):  
Tatiana Chubarova ◽  
Natalia Grigorieva
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
International Knowledge

In the course of their transition to a market economy, the importance of international knowledge transfer from developed capitalist countries to the post-Soviet states has increased. However, the question of what particular knowledge has been transferred and why in some cases knowledge transfer has been successful, while in others it has failed, remains under-researched. Using gender mainstreaming as an example, the mechanisms of international knowledge transfer in Russian social policy are discussed in detail. The authors argue that specific knowledge transfer could facilitate the acquisition of new knowledge, but its sustainable application in social policy decision-making might be problematic, requiring commitment of political actors as well as supportive institutional conditions.

Shaping Mega-Science Projects and Practical Steps for Success

2018 ◽  
pp. 5690-5704
Author(s):  
Phil Crosby
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
Front End ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Successful Design

Too many large engineering/science projects fail in terms of budget overruns, schedule slippage, or under-performance, and this has profound implications not only for the construction and commissioning organisations, but also for the funders (public or private), and the clients or users. Successful design and delivery is therefore not only a commercial necessity but also a societal imperative. Success in complex mega-projects is not easily achieved and is interpreted differently by various stakeholders, moreover there is growing recognition of the importance of front-end shaping. In this chapter, the author addresses the inception, planning and feasibility phases of complex mega-projects in some depth, based on extant and updated research of large scale high-technology science projects. Five key success drivers are explained, and when addressed together, are shown to be especially potent. This chapter draws out subtle aspects of mega-project management shown to be crucial at the preliminary, or start-up, phase.

Symbiotic Data Miner

2010 ◽  
pp. 1903-1908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuriakose Athappilly
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Evolutionary Approach ◽  
Complex Data ◽  
Data Mining Techniques ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Technical Professionals

Symbiotic data mining is an evolutionary approach to how organizations analyze, interpret, and create new knowledge from large pools of data. Symbiotic data miners are trained business and technical professionals skilled in applying complex data-mining techniques and business intelligence tools to challenges in a dynamic business environment.

THE POTENTIAL OF SMALL INNOVATIVE FIRMS IN PRESERVING A SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE TERRITORIES OF ADVANCED SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Gasanov ◽  
T. S. Boiko ◽  
N. S. Frolova
Keyword(s):  
Effective Interaction ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Complex Structural ◽  
Target Characteristics ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Technological Platforms

According to the target characteristics, innovative mesoeconomics is a complex structural transformation. Under the new conditions, a rational principle of effective interaction of production factors is being formed and is functioning, based on a system of innovative technological regimes. They reduce the value of traditional economic resources and preserve the global ecological space. The key factors of mesoeconomic innovation are the possession and effective use of new knowledge in the field of science, high technology, various means of individualization and other intangible assets. The dominant principles, conditions, factors, mechanisms and tools for the implementation of innovative mesoeconomics are being formed. Standards are being created to achieve the intellectual and technological platforms of innovative mesoeconomics.

scholarly journals The development of an instructional design model as a strategic enabler for sustainable competitive advantage

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
L. Le Roux ◽  
H. Oosthuizen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Continuous Change ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Skilled Workforce

In a business environment of continuous change and in light of a defined need to fast track skills improvement and development in South Africa and Africa, training strategies and practices are under increasing pressure to develop a more productive and skilled workforce. Demands on training and the practices it employs increasingly focus on the alignment with strategic imperatives of organisations and the country.This research presented an instructional design (ID) model positioned in intersection between the positioning-based and resource-based theories and used a multi-disciplinary approach to extend the literature on ID models with the aim to offer measurable improvements in job-specific knowledge and productive behaviour as proxies for sustainable competitive advantage. The research confirmed the contribution of the ID model in this regard and described and substantiated the pivotal link between training and ID models and the application thereof in practice to aid organisations and, by extension, countries, in the achievement and sustainability of competitive advantage. This, the first of two articles, presents not only the theoretical and practical context of the research, but also the development of a revised and advanced ID model. In the second article the ID model will be subjected to empirical investigation and evaluated through the application thereof in a case organisation and a grounded conclusion provided.This is the first in a series of two articles.

scholarly journals Building a high-technology product out of India: The Intelli-Fi way

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Varadharajan Sridhar
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Wifi Networks ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Technology Products ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
Technology Product

There has been a constant debate over the last decade as to whether the Indian information technology sector should continue to be driven by services revenue or should the firms actively pursue in building high-technology products. Dr Prashant Joshi, former lead researcher at AT&T Research and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre, New York, while returning to India in 2002, conceptualized that someday, the world would witness massive deployment of WiFi networks and that these networks require active 24 × 7 management. He incubated his start-up in Bangalore, India, with a vision to build a WiFi secure management product suite for global markets. The case outlines the evolution of Intelli-Fi networks from a humble beginning to a strong network management firm with installed base all around the world. The case highlights the technical and managerial challenges of the firm and its entrepreneur founder in building a world class product.

Symbiotic Data Mining

2011 ◽  
pp. 1083-1086
Author(s):  
Kuriakose Athappilly ◽  
Alan Rea
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Evolutionary Approach ◽  
Complex Data ◽  
Data Mining Techniques ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Technical Professionals

Symbiotic data mining is an evolutionary approach to how organizations analyze, interpret, and create new knowledge from large pools of data. Symbiotic data miners are trained business and technical professionals skilled in applying complex data-mining techniques and business intelligence tools to challenges in a dynamic business environment.

MIT as Catalyst for High-Technology Start-up Companies

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 409-411
Author(s):  
Karen Hersey
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Institute Of Technology

There are more than 4,000 companies providing services and products worldwide whose roots can be traced to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) educational experience. While MIT's unique origins may be partly responsible for the success of its students and faculty in starting new businesses, the main success factor is directly related to an entrepreneurial environment that has been consistently nourished, encouraged, and sustained over the past 100 years. This paper provides the reader with a glimpse of MIT as a breeding ground for entrepreneurs. Its history, its geography, its position as a leading US research university, and its continued strong links with industry are all factors in its unparalleled success as an educational environment that engenders an entrepreneurial spirit among students and faculty that is exceptional.

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