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Global Business Value Innovations: Building Innovation Capabilities for Business Strategies

Global Business Value Innovations: Building Innovation Capabilities for Business Strategies

Arora, Anshu Saxena
Bacouel-Jentjens, Sabine
Edmonds, Jennifer J.

Hardcover

Series: International Marketing and Management Research

Business GeneralManagementMarketing

ISBN10: 3319779281
ISBN13: 9783319779287
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: May 14 2018
Pages: 145
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
CHAPTER 1

A Comparison of MedTech Supply Chain Strategies in Switzerland and the Czech Republic

Bublu Thakur-Weigold ETH Zurich, Patrick Dümmler HealthTech Cluster Switzerland, and Jana Vlckova VSE Prague

This paper compares the Supply Chains of Medical Technology (MedTech) firms in two open European economies: highly-developed Switzerland, and the emerging Czech Republic. The focus is on MedTech because it is fast-growing and important to the economies of both locations, and like other manufacturing sectors, has undergone fragmentation of production across Global Value Chains (GVCs). Firm-level data and on-site interviews are analysed to describe MedTech supply chains in the two contrasting European locations. Both GVC methodology and Supply Chain Mapping are applied to case studies to identify factors which influence competitiveness. Supply Chain patterns and GVC positioning differ between locations because Switzerland focuses on high value-added activities such as R&D and branding. Specialized manufacturing (especially of therapeutic products), is also located there, in spite of high costs. By contrast, the Czech Republic focuses mostly on low value-added activities, such as manufacturing of disposables, although several domestic innovative companies are notable. We generalize four types of firms, and describe strategies of their supply chains within their macroeconomic conditions and business cultures.

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