Technologcial Capabilities and Firm Upgrading: An Empirical Study of High-Tech Firms

Author

Guifu, Gao ; Hongjia, Ma

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Jilin Univ., Changchun, China

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

26-27 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

452

Lastpage

456

Abstract

Firm technological capability definitely has great significance on firm upgrading. This paper investigated the relationship between firm technological capability and firm upgrading based on 717 valid samples. The results show that technological shifting capability in firm technological capabilities is significantly positively associated with product upgrading while technological operating capability and technological acquiring capability are neither significantly associated with product upgrading. Technological operating capability and technological shifting capability are significantly positively associated with process upgrading but technological acquiring capability is not significantly associated with process upgrading. Then this paper discussed hypothesis testing results. Finally we pointed out the limitations and future research direction.

Keywords

innovation management; technology management; firm process upgrading; high-tech firms; technological acquiring capability; technological operating capability; technological shifting capability; Communication industry; Conference management; Engineering management; Information management; Innovation management; Investments; Production systems; Technological innovation; Technology management; Testing; Technologcial capabilities; firm upgrading; high-tech firms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering, 2009 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3876-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIII.2009.267

Filename

5370530