Knowledge transfer and technology diffusion
This important book is about the origins and diffusion of innovation, in theory and in practice. The practice draws on a variety of industries, from electronics to eyewear, from furniture to mechatronics, in a range of economies including Europe, the USA and China
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham
Edward Elgar
2011
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This important book is about the origins and diffusion of innovation, in theory and in practice. The practice draws on a variety of industries, from electronics to eyewear, from furniture to mechatronics, in a range of economies including Europe, the USA and China Knowledge transfer and technology diffusion : an introduction / Paul L. Robertson and David Jacobson -- Resources and innovation in low-tech. industries: an empirical study of clusters in Spain and Italy / José L. Hervas-Oliver and José Albors -- Inward flows of information and knowledge in low-tech. industrial districts : contrasting the 'few firms gatekeeper' and 'direct peer' models / Fiorenza Belussi ... [et al.] -- The role of company networks in low-tech. industries / David Jacobson and Francesco Garibaldo -- Technological change, knowledge integration and adaptive processes : the mechatronic evolution of the Reggio Emilia district / Lorenzo Ciapetti -- Globalization and low-technology industries : the case of Italian eyewear / Diego Campagnolo and Arnaldo Camuffo --Innovation and external knowledge sources in industrial districts : evidence from an Italian furniture cluster / Andrea Morrison -- Engineering versus craftsmanship : innovation in the electric guitar industry, 1945-1984 / Thierry Rayna and Ludmila Striukova -- How low- and medium-technology industries in developing countries compete with multinationals : lessons from China's home electronics sector / Guo Yung-Hsing -- New patterns in knowledge transfer and catching up : Chinese R&D in ICT / Vicky Long and Staffan Laestadius -- Technological learning and capability building in LMT industries in newly industrializing countries : selected examples from Taiwan / Liang-Chih Chen -- Understanding regional innovation systems in LMT industries : the case of Turkey as an emerging market economy / Ali Fikirkoca, Bahar Çelikkol Erbas and Arcan Tuzcu -- International technology diffusion and productivity in low- and medium-technology sectors in India / Saon Ray |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 345 p ill., map |
| ISBN: | 9780857930552 9781848441064 |