Innovation in the automotive sector of the Philippines
The performance of the Philippine automotive industry has steadily improved following the Asian financial crisis. However, relative to the performance of the automotive industry in other countries, the sector has languished. To understand the challenges being faced by the automotive assemblers, as well as parts and components manufacturers, the innovation capability and activities of selected establishments are analysed following the framework developed by J. Bessant. This paper finds that despite having an awareness of the importance of technology and upgrading, some of the automotive firms are not able to translate this awareness into other technology activities.
Assessing Technological Capability: Design and uses of an audit tool
Toolkits for assisting innovation managers have been a regular and accepted contributor to organisational development programmes for many years. Less readily available are equivalent tools and techniques that can be used to assist academic researchers interested in assessing the extent to which firms have reached different levels of technological capabilities or, even more importantly, by policy-makers themselves. This paper describes a data collection vehicle that aims to contribute to all three spheres – individual organizational development, academic research and policy-making. It is designed to identify a firm’s strengths and weaknesses in the development of their technological capabilities and to categorise a firm based upon their awareness of the threats and opportunities posed by technology and the degree to which the firm is prepared and able to change in practice. The tool can, however, also be used to collect data that should be relevant to policy-makers with responsibilities for regional or sectoral industrial development. 
The paper looks at some aspects of the innovation policy field in which it is hoped the tool can make a contribution, the approach incorporated into the design of the tool to identify technological capabilities and our categorisation of firms in relationship to this model.
Thermal-mechanical fully coupled analysis of high-speed angular contact ball bearings
The thermal and mechanical properties of angular contact ball bearings are critical to their operating accuracy and service life. On the basis of the theory of dynamics and frictional heat generation, this work establishes a thermal-mechanical fully coupled model. The high-speed motion characteristics, temperature, and dynamic stiffness are analyzed, and the simulation results are compared with the theoretical calculation and experimental results. Then, the temperature and axial deformation of the bearings under different rotation speeds are analyzed, and the laws of mechanical and thermal characteristics of the bearings are obtained. Results show that an increase in the rotation speed of the inner ring causes the temperature of each component to increase, with the contact area of the balls showing the greatest increase in temperature. An increase in rotation speed also increases the axial deformation of the inner ring.