The Changing Roles of Imitation and Innovation in Industrial Clusters: The Printed Circuit Board Industry in Northern Taiwan and Jiangsu Province

Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka ()

Chapter 7 in Cluster-Based Industrial Development, 2006, pp 156-183 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Regarding what we call information (or knowledge) spillovers today, Marshall (1920, p. 271) pointed out nearly a century ago that “the mysteries of the trade become no mystery” in industrial clusters, which means that important business knowledge or know-how is easily diffused in an industrial cluster. Consistently, we have found in Chapters 5 and 6 that early followers are almost all former employees who learned the mysteries of the trade by working at the pioneering enterprises. It is only after these spin-off enterprises have formed an industrial cluster that other types of entrepreneurs with different occupational backgrounds enter the industry.

Keywords: Ordinary Little Square; Knowledge Spillover; Unit Price; Industrial Cluster; Revenue Share (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230596061_7

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