Localised learning and industrial competitiveness
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Recent research into significant characteristics of knowledge creation and their impact has focused on the part played by spatial proximity in encouraging the competitiveness of companies. The claim that the phenomenon of spatial agglomeration of similar or linked companies is found in many countries and industries seems to be justified, but this phenomenon is not universal. There are many successful companies outside spatial agglomerations, and it is also possible to raise doubts about the beneficial impact of localization on learning and innovation. It is clear that knowledge creation is vital to the understanding of the current emergence and reproduction of spatial agglomeration of related companies.
Publication Name: Cambridge Journal of Economics
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0309-166X
Year: 1999
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The globalisation of technology: what remains of the product cycle model?
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Assessment of 100 years of US Patent Office data reveals intrinsic flaws in the concept associated with earlier versions of the product cycle model that technological innovations are based solely in the native country of the parent company. This assessment also reveals that leaders in industrial technology have a monopoly over global dispersion of technological activities.
Publication Name: Cambridge Journal of Economics
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0309-166X
Year: 1995
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