Study of Innovation in Pioneer High-tech Firms from a Financial Perspective

• Main Authors: SERGI MOLINS GUTIERREZ, 莫瑟吉
• Other Authors: HUANG, KAI-PING
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13307563479039650580

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 國際創業與經營管理學程碩士在職專班 === 105 === The bar of innovation is perhaps at its highest in the high-tech industry, as the companies grapple with continuous technological evolution, fast moving competitors and new and innovative start-ups. Incremental innovation is vital for the survival and competitiveness of high-tech companies nowadays. The aim of this study is to empirically investigate how innovation and entrepreneurial orientation have impacted the performance of some of the actually most valued high-tech companies in the world. Previous studies have been made on the most successful high-tech companies ruling the industry, analyzing their evolution throughout the years and their corresponding triumphs. However, this Thesis is focused on the relation between those successes and the innovations made along the way. The research is based on the historical analysis of the performance of each company and their groundbreaking achievements, showing their consequences and explaining the causes of their success. Moreover, the study embraces companies from different sectors of the high-tech industry, in order to obtain a wider range of results and to avoid overlapping of the companies’ trajectories. The results obtained from the research mirror different strategies and approaches from the companies examined, regarding innovation, providing a richer and wider understanding of the subject.