Innovation in Low-Tech Firms and Industries

Edited by Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen and David Jacobson

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Abstract: It is a general understanding that the advanced economies are currently undergoing a fundamental transformation into knowledge-based societies. There is a firm belief that this is based on the development of high-tech industries. Correspondingly, in this scenario low-tech sectors appear to be less important. A critique of this widely held belief is the starting point of this book. It is often overlooked that many of the current innovation activities are linked to developments inside the realm of low-tech. Thus the general objective of the book is to contribute to a discussion concerning the relevance of low-tech industries for industrial innovativeness in the emerging knowledge economy.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9781847208231
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The Low-Tech Issue

Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen, Katrin Hahn and David Jacobson

Ch 2 How to Grasp Innovativeness of Organizations: Outline of a Conceptual Tool

Gerd Bender

Ch 3 Standard-setting Competition and Open Innovation in Non-HT Industries: Mechanical Engineering and Machinery

Alexander Gerybadze and Andre Slowak

Ch 4 The Moral Economy of Technology Indicators

Benoît Godin

Ch 5 Critical Comments on the ‘Moral Economy of Technology Indicators’

Hariolf Grupp

Ch 6 Distributed Knowledge Bases in Low- and Medium-Technology Industries

Paul Robertson and Keith Smith

Ch 7 LMT Innovations in a High-tech Environment: Human-factor ‘Tools’ for the Airline Industry

David Jacobson and Bernard Musyck

Ch 8 Technology Fusion and Organizational Structures in Low- and Medium-tech Companies

Daniela Freddi

Ch 9 Industrial Innovations in Relation to Service Sectors

Marja Toivonen

Ch 10 The Relevance of Services for High-, Medium- and Low-tech Firms – An Empirical Analysis in German Industry

Eva Kirner, Gunter Lay and Steffen Kinkel

Ch 11 Innovation Activities versus Competitiveness in Low- and Medium-Technology-based Economies: The Case of Poland

Anna Wziatek-Kubiak

Ch 12 Low-tech Industries between Traded and Untraded Interdependencies: A Dynamic Concept of Industrial Complementarities

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Ch 13 High-tech Innovations in Catching-up Countries: Conditions and Perspectives

Staffan Laestadius, Linda Gustavsson and Vicky Long

Ch 14 Worshipping at the Shrine of the Knowledge-based Society?

James Wickham

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