Building on the existing literature on evolutionary innovation and technological change, this paper aims to identify potential signals of technological discontinuities and to obtain assessments of experts to what extent these signals help them to predict discontinuities. Furthermore, we analyze...

Obtaining essential intellectual property rights (IPRs) is important for innovation and competition in the network industry, where technical standardization plays a critical role in development. In this study, we empirically investigate the determinants of essential IPRs for wireless...

This paper empirically investigates whether corporate governance practices implemented to align shareholders’ and managers’ interests affect the resources firms devote to R&D. Two databases – one on governance ratings and one on R&D investment – are merged to obtain a multi-country,...

This paper deals with the subjective and the collective nature of knowl-edge as it may develop in high-tech work processes. It argues that high-tech work requires not only skills but also experience of thinking and re-flecting these work processes through scientific concepts. This collective...

The dynamic development in all areas of business brings shorter life cycles of products, technologies, as well as organisational structures and enterprises. The critical factor of many technological changes is not the technology innovation process, but finding a new application for an existing...

Integrating technology and business strategy, technology capacities with customers´ needs, technology and business processes require a three-step mechanism of technology management (TM), namely integration of technology identification, implementation, and potential technology commercialization...

Innovation processes have become more open and complex. Large corporations and vertically integrated R&D labs are giving way to distributed networks of innovation which connect different companies and organizations into innovation ecosystems. Business and technology strategies of smaller...

The European Union dedicates considerable attention to research, development and innovation. Within the long-term strategy Europe 2020, Innovation Union has become one of the key initiatives. The European Union has decided to regularly monitor progress in this area through the Summary Innovation...

The paper deals with an analysis of economic impacts of ICT implementation within the public administration, which is called e-Government. The current situation in the Czech Republic is discussed using data about particular implemented tools, such as the contact points of public administration,...

Many economic analyses use employer-employee data to compare wage and productivity differentials across demographic groups. We apply this approach to assess the importance of ´organizational´ workers, i.e., managing and marketing personnel. The estimates based on 2000-2006 Czech worker-level...