Identifies factors influencing the adaptation of manufacturing processes for international transfer. Proposes that these factors should be divided into those affecting the operation of the process in its new location, and those that influence the transfer itself. This differentiation generates...

The value of technology and the appropriate form of transfer arrangement are important questions to be resolved when transferring technology between Western manufacturing firms and partners in industrialising and developing countries. This article reports on surveys carried out in the machine...

In the face of an integrating world economy where significant changes are taking place as a result of rapidly developing science and technology, China’s government must attach more importance to technology transfer to improve its economy. This paper analyses the features of the new environment...

There are numerous studies concerning the key success factors for technology transfer performance, but little empirical research has been conducted on technology absorptive capacity. In the real world, firms cannot successfully assimilate and apply external knowledge without greater absorptive...

Decision Support Systems (DSS) have special merits for organisations in developing countries. Conditions in which DSS development and implementation became viable and effective in developed countries such as the US are described. The lack of DSS applications in the Republic of China (Taiwan) are...

1996 marks the centenary of car production in the UK. Once a by‐word for inefficiency, contends that the UK car industry has been revitalized. The political environment of the 1980s rendered the UK an attractive location for Japanese “transplants”. Explains how Japanese producers have...

Purpose – Like many countries in the developing world, Ethiopia has leased out a huge amount of land to foreign investors. However, empirical evidence on the contribution of international investments to employment generation and food security is limited. The purpose of this paper is to examine...

The article presents the actual state of innovation and the means of supporting it. It starts with a presentation of the main important elements, such as: legislation, innovation,industrial property, its protection, technology transfer, Infrastructure of Innovation and Technology Transfer,...

Why did the Japanese economy stagnate before World War II, how did it achieve rapid economic growth after the war, and why did it stagnate again after the 1970s? To answer these questions, I developed a two-country trade model with technology transfer, where rms in the two countries compete in a...

We analyze the distributions of paper-paper and paper-patent citations and estimate the relationship between them, based on a sample of 4,763 published papers for which the corresponding authors were among the top 100 researchers in the life and medical sciences in Japan. We find that...