The Evolution of Knowledge Organization and the Emergence of a Platform for Innovation in the Car Industry

Pier Paolo Patrucco

Industry and Innovation, 2014, vol. 21, issue 3, 243-266

Abstract: The paper aims at explaining the changes in how economic actors and their organizations acquire and coordinate innovative and productive capabilities. Using the illustrative evidence from organizational change in the automobile industry in Piedmont over the last 50 years, the paper describes how transformations in the structure of interactions between firms are steered by changes in the pattern of specialization and differentiation in the capabilities and technological skills of economic actors. The system is characterized by the emergence of a platform for the coordination of productive and technological activities, which can be seen as a major change in the organization of innovation in the system.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2014.910892

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