Knowledge Transfer and Technology Diffusion

Edited by Paul Robertson () and David Jacobson

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781848441064
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Knowledge Transfer and Technology Diffusion: An Introduction

Paul Robertson and David Jacobson

Ch 2 Resources and Innovation in Low-tech Industries: An Empirical Study of Clusters in Spain and Italy

José L. Hervas-Oliver and José Albors

Ch 3 Inward Flows of Information and Knowledge in Low-tech Industrial Districts: Contrasting the ‘Few Firms Gatekeeper’ and ‘Direct Peer’ Models

Fiorenza Belussi, Silvia Rita Sedita, Tine Aage and Daniele Porcellato

Ch 4 The Role of Company Networks in Low-tech Industries

David Jacobson and Francesco Garibaldo

Ch 5 Technological Change, Knowledge Integration and Adaptive Processes: The Mechatronic Evolution of the Reggio Emilia District

Lorenzo Ciapetti

Ch 6 Globalization and Low-technology Industries: The Case of Italian Eyewear

Diego Campagnolo and Arnaldo Camuffo

Ch 7 Innovation and External Knowledge Sources in Industrial Districts: Evidence from an Italian Furniture Cluster

Andrea Morrison

Ch 8 Engineering versus Craftsmanship: Innovation in the Electric Guitar Industry, 1945–1984

Thierry Rayna and Ludmila Striukova

Ch 9 How Low- and Medium-technology Industries in Developing Countries Compete with Multinationals: Lessons from China’s Home Electronics Sector

Guo Yung-Hsing

Ch 10 New Patterns in Knowledge Transfer and Catching Up: Chinese R&D in ICT

Vicky Long and Staffan Laestadius

Ch 11 Technological Learning and Capability Building in LMT Industries in Newly Industrializing Countries: Selected Examples from Taiwan

Liang-Chih Chen

Ch 12 Understanding Regional Innovation Systems in LMT Industries: The Case of Turkey as an Emerging Market Economy

Ali Fikirkoca, Bahar Erbas and Arcan Tuzcu

Ch 13 International Technology Diffusion and Productivity in Low- and

Saon Ray

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