Recent years have seen the market opportunity for innovative bioscience products grow rapidly. For instance, the human clinical diagnostics field is now a $17 billion world‐wide market, and in specific sectors, such as point of care (POC) and over the counter (OTC), there is an increasing...

When people buy color TVs, there is one color they really look out for – green. Or so Sony found out in the mid‐1990s when a Dutch consumer magazine gave one of its models a poor environmental rating. Market share fell by 11.5 percent while that of competitors’ TVs which received good...

Undoubtedly, the familiar and relentless progress of computing power is opening up new categories of products and business opportunities. Essentially, it will not be long before any appliance that does not already have the capability to use embedded computing will soon find itself able to do so...

As more manufactures struggle with global markets, competition from “low cost” countries, and faltering home economies, the attention of many manufacturers has naturally turned to cost and waste reduction. Yet, while major quality and productivity benefits are being generated in many...

Few single issues present a more formidable impediment to effective innovation and rapid product development than the problem of effectively communicating and exchanging digital engineering data. Studies undertaken over the past decade, as CAD has become widespread, have repeatedly highlighted...

Purpose – Explains how SMEs have discovered how to avoid high investment cost attributed to the implementation costs of knowledge based engineering or engineering automation software. Design/methodology/approach – A study of how SMEs have developed alternative design automation using...

Purpose – To study the risks, and benefits, to companies or introducing new products to the market. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the findings in context. Findings – Ahn‐Sook Hwang...

Purpose – Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – Scans the top 400 management publications in the world to identify the most topical issues and latest...

Purpose – Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – Scans the top 400 management publications in the world to identify the most topical issues and latest...

Purpose – This paper reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and...