Adoption time of a maturing disruptive technology in a duopoly market

New disruptive technologies invalidate the traditional competition dimension in continuous innovation and reconstruct the competitive landscape. These technologies leave a management gap in the adoption of new technologies by competing companies. Accordingly, this research establishes a duopoly game model based on horizontal and vertical differentiations for technology competition problems with asymmetric features. Competition between firms and technologies are investigated simultaneously. We find that a profit increase from new technologies is typically eliminated by the increased technology competition. Thus, firms with competitive advantages in the old market may be late in adopting new technologies, and the competition will further delay the adoption process. We then introduce a preemption strategy for adopting disruptive technologies, and test it in both current established competition and threat competition from the entrants. Results show that leading companies may hesitate in deterring new entrants for fear of losing the leadership in the current competition. At last, we provide a time strategy that can help the market leader maintain a leadership position with minimal losses. Our research has contributed to the studies of both the interpretation of the “innovator's dilemma” and the direction of technology adoption research under multi-dimensional technologies and multiple competitors.

Competition law and digital ecosystems: Learning to walk before we run

The paper analyzes the challenges faced by competition authorities with respect to the digital sector. Borrowing insights from the business policy literature and from the economic literature, the paper first analyzes the specificities of digital firms (multi-sided platforms and ecosystems) with respect to their development and competitive strategies. Building on this foundation the paper explores some of the challenges of applying traditional competition analysis to competition in the business sector. We then discuss a number of issues relevant to competition law enforcement in the digital sector starting with the role of data, competition within ecosystems and between ecosystems, consumer biases, and the role of gatekeepers. We conclude with a research agenda for economists and competition authorities.

Detection of antibodies neutralizing historical and emerging SARS-CoV-2 strains using a thermodynamically coupled de novo biosensor system

With global vaccination efforts against SARS-CoV-2 underway, there is a need for rapid quantification methods for neutralizing antibodies elicited by vaccination and characterization of their strain dependence. Here, we describe a designed protein biosensor that enables sensitive and rapid detection of neutralizing antibodies against wild type and variant SARS-CoV-2 in serum samples. More generally, our thermodynamic coupling approach can better distinguish sample to sample differences in analyte binding affinity and abundance than traditional competition based assays.

Italian Maritime Economy and the EU Green Deal

The article examines the problem of transformation of the Italian maritime economy (in terms of transport and logistics infrastructure) in the context of the European Green Deal. The increased role of the Mediterranean in international maritime trade makes Italy explore ways of improving the competitiveness of its ports infrastructure and logistics to avoid lagging behind rapidly developing competitors in Greece, Spain, Turkey and the countries of North Africa. At the same time, Italy continues to position itself as a middle power, whose dominance in the Mediterranean is a natural result of its geographic position and national priorities. Currently traditional competition is aggravated by the negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the world maritime economy. Rome expects that the EU's Green Deal and the EU Next Generation Plan will help Italy solve three problems: 1) to increase its own competitiveness in the transport and logistics system of the Mediterranean; 2) to stimulate the development of the South of the country; 3) to become a protagonist of the new EU normative power and leadership in the green transformation in the Mediterranean. The author concludes that the main goal of Italy is to restore its role as a middle power and the leader of the Mediterranean, and to increase its own status within the EU.

Facilitating Competition in the Cloud

This chapter studies the application of competition law to the provision of cloud computing services. Competition law is understood as a set of rules enforced by competition authorities that are intended to protect the process of competition and enhance consumer welfare. These rules may allow intervention in the market when competition is distorted, but also have a primary precautionary purpose which intends to prevent the act or conduct of undertakings from resulting in competition being distorted and ensure healthy competition in the market. Although cloud computing is global, the chapter focuses mainly on developments within the EU, but where relevant, refers to academic commentary relevant to cloud from a US antitrust law perspective. The application of traditional competition law to the provision of cloud computing services has been slow. Competition in markets has often also been facilitated by alternative 'regulatory' mechanisms, some of which may help ensure competition in the provision of cloud computing services. The chapter examines two such mechanisms: public procurement rules and data portability requirements.

Predicting The Role of Entrepreneur Strategies on Improving Cognitive Positioning in Global Business

The current area characterized with strong competition, the changing pattern of the business, move the value from physicals to knowledges and information, and the shift of the benefits from traditional competition cognitive and intellectual assets, most of the organizations are looking for new methods to achieve a state of leadership and uniqueness in the global market in order to develop the competition.The current study aimed to identify the role of Entrepreneur Strategies on improving cognitive positioning in the global business area. Moreover, field testing of the views of leaders as a sample of foreign organization operating in Erbil - Iraq, where these dimensions vary in their effects towards the competitive position in global business sector, because of rapid changes in the global business environment as a result of increased competition, as well as the variation of the capacity of the organizations in the adoption of competitive as one of the modern models in the conduct of organizations. This is why the subject of entrepreneur strategies and cognitive positioning in global business became under the attention of many researchers and scholars being of contemporary themes with impact on the performance of organizations in pursuit of excellence on others, prompting the researcher to choose these subjects to be his field for study.

Competitiveness of seafood enterprises: the case study of Ba-Ria-Vung-Tau province, Vietnam

This study aims to identify and measure the impact on the Competitive capability of frozen seafood processing enterprises in BR-VT province. Research access tocompetitiveness is based on competency theory, different from previous domestic studies primarily approaching competitiveness based on traditional competition theory and value chain theory. The research model consists of 9 factors. The study was conducted with 356 survey samples of 76 frozen seafood processing enterprises, surveyed through a questionnaire.Data analysis through SPSS 24.0. The test results have 8 accepted hypothesis, the highest impact factor is the ability to access and innovate technology with β = 0.3328 (p = 0.000) and the lowest is local infrastructure factorwith β = 0.067 (p = 0.042), and Policy and Legal Factor with β = - 0.038 (p = 0.249), there is not statistical significance should not be accepted.

The Role of Financial and Business Intelligence in a Globalized World

After the end of the Cold War, Intelligence Agencies and security Services have significantly extended their skills in the financial, economic and technological sectors. The growing impact of organized crime, which has enormous financial resources, is also widespread. The "cleansing" of dirty money and the massive investments made in certain productive sectors have become a real threat, which affects every country. The increase of the financial and economic Intelligence is related primarily to the geo-economic competition between states, the globalization of markets and production, and the fact that the internationalization of property has been added to the traditional competition for the conquest of markets related to the ownership structure of the social groups and the location of the manufacturing companies. While in the past the objective of companies was the market, now also the portfolio is important. This causes a notable dynamism of the ownership structures and therefore a potential instability even in the division of labor. Hostile acquisitions, destabilizing financial maneuvers, industrial espionage of the technological assets of national companies are possible. In this sense, geo-economics has assumed a more important role than geostrategy in the new international geopolitics. States must therefore equip themselves for geo-economic competition as they were in the past focused on the geostrategic one.

PROSPECTS FOR THE GROWTH OF INNOVATIVENESS OF PODLASKIE COMPANIES FROM THE AGRI-FOOD SECTOR

Economic development based on traditional competition can no longer be the basis of market success. In the age of globalization of the global economy, to be competitive companies have to offer something more, which will cause them to be noticed. These are the innovations that determine the direction of development. The pace and scope of innovation implementation determines the competitive advantage of companies as they play a key role in introducing new products to the market, ie meeting the needs, requirements and expectations of customers.The guiding objective of this article is to present to the scale of the planned implementation of innovation and their sources of funding for the food industry Podlaskie. The analysis was based on the research literature and original. Analysis of the material contained in the article leads to the conclusion that the growth prospects of agri-food enterprises in Podlaskie Voivodship are very high.

Sector Inquiry into Cross-Border E-Commerce: Challenges and Practical Implications for European Union Completion Law

The aim of this article is to show what the practical implications are regarding the Commission inquiry into e-commerce sector launched on 6 May 2015. Because of their specific and dynamic nature, the application of competition law to online markets may prove challenging. Therefore, the focus will be also directed to challenges that could be faced when anti-competitive practices in e-commerce sector are strictly enforced. The question is whether traditional competition analysis may be sufficiently able to reflect the way in which competition takes place on digital markets.