Patterns of Diffusion of New Technologies in Small Metal-Working Firms: The Case of an Italian Region

Paolo Gurisatti, Vladimiro Soli and Giuseppe Tattara

Industrial and Corporate Change, 1997, vol. 6, issue 2, 275-312

Abstract: Programmable automation in the form of numerically controlled and computerized numerically controlled machine tools and flexible manufacturing systems has been commonly hailed as signalling a fundamental economic-technical paradigm shift similar to the shifts due to the introduction of the steam engine and the electric motor. This paper discusses the patterns of diffusion of microelectronics-based technical change in machine tools employed in metal-working or "engineering" firms in Italy. It is directed toward the segment of the production process involving the employment of metal-cutting milling machines. The paper builds a taxonomy linking innovative technological patterns to the competencies and strategies of firms. Copyright 1997 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1997
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