Competitive Advantage of Regions and Nations
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Active Technology Management
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Chile’s Wine Industry
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External Spillovers
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Government Bodies
innovation management
investment
Investment Promotion Agencies
investment promotion strategies
Irish Software Industry
knowledge spillovers
Malaysian Automotive Industry
managing
Managing Technology Transfer
MNC
MNC Subsidiary
multinational enterprises
promotion
Solar Energy Technology
Solar Thermal Power Plant
South South Technology Transfer
strategy
tacit
Tacit Technology
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Technology Management Process
Technology Mission Statement
Technology Strategy
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- ISBN 9781409402381
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 09 May 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The importance of technology transfer for the competitive advantage of companies and the economic success of nations cannot be overstated. Technology is a determining element for firms and nations to increase productivity, to compete, and to prosper. In The Competitive Advantage of Regions and Nations, the authors stress that companies, investment promotion agencies, and government bodies cannot simply sit and wait until new technologies arrive in their domain. Rather, they need to manage the identification, assessment, attraction, absorption and application of new technologies. In this comprehensive book, Boris Ricken and George Malcotsis explain how technology transfer in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects can be systematically managed. Using some 40 case studies as illustration, they give step-by-step guidance for managers. The explanation of theory in this book, together with the frameworks and cases delivering solutions to the various challenges of technology transfer will be highly appreciated by managers of companies, investment promotion agencies, and government bodies alike. It also offers students confronted with the topic an understandable study guide.
Boris Ricken is responsible for internal projects and process management at PPCmetrics AG, a leading Swiss consulting firm for institutional investors. Dr Ricken has an academic background in the field of business administration (PhD, University of Zürich) as well as political science (Masters, University of Constance, Germany). He has published various books and peer-reviewed papers for international conferences. At Napier University, Edinburgh, UK, he teaches a Technology Transfer and FDI module on the Investment Promotion and Economic Development MSc. programme. He gained practical experience in FDI and technology transfer while being employed at an investment promotion agency. In addition, he was involved in numerous FDI projects working four years as a Senior Strategy Consultant for one of the world's leading building material suppliers, employing some 80'000 people with production sites in around 70 countries. George Malcotsis has a Bachelors and Masters in Engineering from the Universities of Surrey and London and a Doctorate in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, England. He began his career in a teaching and research position at the University of Cambridge. From 1976 to 1990 he worked for a major internationally active engineering consulting firm in Switzerland eventually becoming president. In 1990 he joined KPMG Switzerland, as a partner at director level, to head the international management consulting division. He was managing director of SOFI, the Swiss Organisation for Facilitating Investments. He is visiting professor at the Napier University Business School in Edinburgh, Scotland. His special field of research and teaching is business planning and intercultural business negotiations. Through managing business operations in over 80 countries, Dr Malcotsis has gained extensive international experience and an ability to operate across cultural barriers. In 2007 he became Partner of DIAS.
