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Due to the advances in science and technology and the rapid changes in the market, a product's life cycle has become much shorter than before. Enterprises must constantly innovate and conduct research on new products, choose appropriate products with new technology, cope with customer demands and the threat from new competitors. A new product development (NPD) strategy is an important activity that helps enterprises to survive and make continuous improvements. This study will conduct a performance analysis for Taiwanese high technology companies implementing knowledge management (KM) and new product development strategy. The following results were obtained: (1) There is a positive effect on new product development performance for those companies that strongly implement knowledge management method; (2) Different new product development strategies taken by companies lead to variations in performance; (3) The innovation is more effective than a copying strategy. High technology companies that use an effective knowledge management method to establish NPD strategies will have success. Keywords: Knowledge management (KM); New product development (NPD) strategy; New product development performance

The impact of internationalization and proprietary assets on the performance of 170 Taiwanese TSE-listed high-technology firms notable for their OEM and ODM business is examined. Its results clearly show an inverted U-shaped relationship between internationalization and performance.

The decomposition of impacts of core competencies on firm performance and the moderating effects of environmental turbulence on the basis of developing structural equation models using the partial least square (PLS) method is analyzed.

The relationship between technology centers and high-tech regions in Germany are analyzed. Existence of high-tech regions and the causes of their being into origin in Germany are discussed.

Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp. was Austin's first base for high tech research and development chosen by Adm. Bob Inman, financed by 12 technology companies. MCC, at present is just a shell organization that pays royalties, but it is believed to be the catalyst that brought Austin to the peak of a technology boomtown.

The old paradigms of organizational technology adoption and innovation processes are reviewed and a new paradigm that incorporates the role of transformation is proposed. An organizational-level technology transformation model (TTM) is suggested by preliminary surveys within various high technology industry sectors outlining its salient features.

Electronic products must work reliably in environments plagued by electromagnetic interference as well as by stresses related to temperature, vibration, humidity, radiation, and altitude. In addition to withstanding external environmental […]

Under an unexpected long-lasting economic stagnation, R&D activities in Japan's leading industries have been stagnating leading to destruction of Japan's ambitious virtuous cycle between technology and economic growth. Considering that Japan is undergoing a paradigm shift from an industrial society to an information society that emerged in the 1990s structural sources of such economic stagnation can be attributed to qualitative heterogeneous nature of such paradigm shift. Provided that new functionality development, the globalization of the economy and consequent global technology spillovers increase as an information society emerges, R&D activities, functionality development and assimilation capacity for effective utilization of spillover technology construct a subtle dynamic structure essential for the firms' competitive strategy and decision-making policy. This article, in order to reconstruct competitive strategy for Japan's high-technology industry by shifting a vicious cycle to a virtuous cycle between R&D, functionality development and assimilation capacity, analyzes the dynamism regarding the impacts of functionality development on assimilated spillover technology leading to gross technology stock with significant contribution of sales and R&D intensity. Keywords; Functionality development; Versatality; Competitive strategy; Self-propagating structure; Japan's high-technology industry

Young entrepreneurs in the high technology companies of Canada and the US are profiled.

Forty outstanding companies noteworthy for their innovation, technology, strategic vision, global reach, and networked communication are identified and described.

ApJet technology invented at the Los Alamos National Laboratory provides a revolutionary advance in materials processing. Gary Selwyn, the entrepreneur of APJet tells about his journey and opportunities that made him a successful businessman.

Even though the times are tough for the high-tech sector, there are many reasons to be optimistic about the future. A brief look at the high-tech sector, the successes and disappointments are presented.

As the final frontier, space holds a lot of possibilities for Canadians -- and Canadian firms. Canadian companies have made a dramatic impact on space exploration, in large and small [...]

In an interview of Charles A. Butt, President and Chief Executive of Forbes Medi-Tech Inc., the history of the company, the nutraceutical market, products, biopharmaceutical market are discussed.

The operations and management of Genaera Corp of Plymouth Meeting, PA, are described in detail by president and CEO Roy C. Levitt.

The operations and management of Cypress Bioscience Inc of San Diego, CA, are described in detail by chairman and CEO Jay D. Kranzler.

The operations and management of CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals Inc of Newtown, PA, are described in detail by chairman, president, and CEO Brian M. Gallager.

The recent economic recession has inflicted pain on the once highflying technology industry--not only on dot-com startups but also on stalwarts such as Cisco, Dell and Intel. But despite the [...]

OVERVIEW: Internal research and development organizations can become more effective by learning to leverage products and learnings from venture-funded companies, and by adopting some of the management practices of venture managers and of start-ups run by venture capitalists. These include identifying ideas with the potential to replace existing businesses, demanding performance to specific milestones, applying pre-IPO valuation techniques, and searching out high-growth industries and markets. Even so, corporate research continues to play an important role in the creation of value, a role that is different from that of companies funded by venture funds., Venture capital funding for new companies has increased dramatically during the past five years, returning on average about 40 percent/year despite negative returns from June 2000 through June 2001 (1). [...]

'Fuzzy front end'--fatuous fallacy! The 'Stage-Gate process' is typically depicted with a little light bulb in a circle captioned 'Ideation' as the starting point for new product development. However, if [...]

OVERVIEW: Despite the evidence that most acquisitions fail to add value to the acquirer, an acquisition can be successful by following a disciplined integration program based upon best practices. A solid strategic foundation that explains the 'why' of the deal is the right place to start customizing the integration process for maximum value capture. After the process is created, it should be followed rigorously. While speed is essential, quality is paramount; in fact, excellence at each stage of the integration cumulatively increases the odds of overall success. And don't forget the major impact of simple actions like CEO visits. By following these guidelines you can weather the inevitable surprises that sink many acquisition integrations., Recent studies indicate that only one in five acquisitions--high-tech or otherwise--actually add value to the acquiring corporation over time. In other words, up to 80 percent of all acquisitions fail [...]

This article provides an overview of Florida's high tech industry. Most, but not all of the companies are struggling or have changed focus to stay in business. Adding to their difficulties, many companies' stock prices are at record low prices.

To speed their time to market, a growing number of industries--including pharmaceuticals, complex manufacturing and high-tech hardware and software--are collaborating on research and development, often linking global teams across regional [...]

The crash of the dot-coms gets the media ink, but some tech-based start-ups are surviving and thriving. These four young companies' leaders could teach a course in start-up success. OK […]

As popularly used in industry, achieving a Six Sigma level of quality means limiting defective performance to 3.4 per million opportunities, which would be nearly defect-free. 'Elimination of defects' has [...]

Confidential statements concerning various medical device and technology companies are given by several industry analysts and executives.

The operations and management of Geron Corp of Menlo Park, CA, are described in detail by president and CEO Thomas B. Okarma. The company focuses on cellular and molecular biology for the study of aging.

Relationship issues are a major concern in business alliances. Establishing trust, implementing effective communication methods and managing cultural differences are some of the issues that alliances must contend with.

The operations and management of Patriot Scientific Corp of San Diego, CA, are discussed in detail by executives Lowell W. Griffhorn and David H. Pohl. The company provides intellectual property technology to a variety of industries.

In mid 2001, the Japanese government carried out a major reorganisation of a number of its ministries and their agencies. The Ministry of International Trade & Industry, has been replaced [...]

The operations and management of Xybernaut Corp of Fairfax, VA, are described in detail by chairman, president, and CEO Edward G. Newman. The company provides the hardware and software for handling electronic technical manuals.

STUVA was initially based in Dusseldorf and its work was mainly tied to desk studies. From the early 1970s the emphasis moved to more laboratory testing and field studies. These [...]

Economic historians will no doubt record the late 1900s as a golden age for entrepreneurs. The advent of information technology created a plethora of opportunities not uncommon in periods of [...]

The operations and management of Forbes Medi-Tech Inc of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, are discussed in detail by president Charles A. Butt. Pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products are the company's main areas of concern.

The operations and management of CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals Inc of Newtown, PA, are described in detail by chairman, president, and CEO Brian M. Gallagher. CollaGenex is a pharmaceutical company operating in the dental market.

The operations and management of Genaera Corp of Plymouth Meeting, PA, are discussed in detail by president and CEO Roy C. Levitt. Genaera provides medicines for a wide variety of diseases.

Research into the strategy, culture, and time orientation that influences high tech firms is given. The research suggests that adaptable organizational culture and future time orientation are very important to small high tech firms success.

Issues concerning business success and failure during times of wide-reaching technological change are discussed. It is argued that there is much to learn from the internet and technology boom of 1995 to 2000, when some people became very rich and others lost a lot of money.