Technology, Employment, and Regional Competitiveness

Malecki, Edward J.

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“…This suggests that flexible production, particularly of custom products for individual customers, is the norm rather than the exception among the firms surveyed, whether or not the concept of 'new/improved' products is appropriate. (Malecki 1997). Firm performance may be best viewed as a product of the interplay between in-house R&D efforts to innovate and external innovation networks for knowledge transfer.…”

Section: Sampling Methodology and General Traits Of The Surveyed Firmsmentioning

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Technological innovation and interfirm cooperation: an exploratory analysis using survey data from manufacturing firms in the metropolitan region of Vienna

Fischer

Varga²

2002

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This paper centres around two research questions: first, the identification of five types of networks that manufacturing firms located in the metropolitan region of Vienna may have created for different purposes; and second, the question to what extent the likelihood of interfirm cooperation is conditioned by the general profile of manufacturing establishments and their technological resources. Although this paper focuses on the manufacturing sector a special emphasis is placed on the electronics industry. The study utilizes a recent postal survey providing data on size and organization, products and markets, research and development, innovation and interfirm relationships. The analysis of the first question finds that: first, networking does not yet seem to be a popular managerial and organisational concept for manufacturing firms located in the metropolitan region of Vienna; second, networking activities are primarily based on vertical relationships (customer, manufacturer supplier and producer service provider networks) rather than on horizontal linkages (producer networks, industry-university linkages); third, networks focusing on the later stages of the innovation process are less common than those focusing on the earlier stages; fourth, firms tend to rely on sources of technology from national and -especially -international networks. It appears that metropolitan networking is less common than has been thought. For technical advance spatial proximity does not seem to be very important. Turning to the second research question of the study, focusing on the adoption of the managerial and organizational concept of networking, the results are bolstering the argument that establishment traits and technology related-capabilities do play a role. The results achieved reveal, for example, that in-house research skills are a very good predictor for industry-university relationships. AcknowledgementsThis study draws on work undertaken in close cooperation with the University of Hanover, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the Polytechnical University of Catalonia in Barcelona to analyze regional innovation potentials and networks in metropolitan regions. Vera Mayer, Walter Rohn (both Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Ingo Liefner (University of Hanover) have provided fundamental help in conducting the postal survey in the metropolitan region of Vienna. Helpful comments on the manuscript by two anonymous referees have been highly appreciated. 1 Technological Innovation and Interfirm CooperationAn exploratory analysis using survey data from manufacturing firms in the metropolitan region of Vienna Keywords: Electronics, Manufacturing, Innovation, Networking, Regional Innovation Systems AbstractThis paper centres around two research questions: first, the identification of five types of networks that manufacturing firms located in the metropolitan region of Vienna may have created for different purposes; and second, the question to what extent the likelihood of interfirm cooperation is conditioned by ...

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“…These sources provide the know-why, know-how, know-who, know-when and know-what important for entrepreneurial success (Johannisson 1991, Malecki 1997. Network arrangements of different kinds provide a firm that assistance necessary to take advantage of outside knowledge.…”

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Technological innovation and interfirm cooperation: an exploratory analysis using survey data from manufacturing firms in the metropolitan region of Vienna

Fischer

Varga²

2002

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“…energy conservation, automation); and, innovations to improve the conditions of work. These very different phenomena have made generalization difficult (Malecki 1997). For a long time thinking about technological change and innovation has been guided by linear models -in the 1950s and 1960s by the technology-push and then the need-pull model.…”

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“…An interactive model of the innovation process: feedbacks and interactions (Fischer 1999) Figure 1 represents what is referred to as the chain-linked model (Kline and Rosenberg 1986, OECD 1992, Malecki 1997. The innovation process at the firm level is portrayed as a set of activities that are linked to one another through complex feedback loops.…”

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Innovation, knowledge creation and systems of innovation

Fischer¹

2001

The Annals of Regional Science

220

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Abstract:The main objective of this paper is to provide greater understanding of the systems of innovation approach as a flexible and useful conceptual framework for spatial innovation analysis. It presents an effort to develop some missing links and to decrease the conceptual noise often present in the discussions on national innovation systems. The paper specifies elements and relations that seem to be essential to the conceptual core of the framework and argues that there is no a priori reason to emphasize the national over the subnational (regional) scale as an appropriate mode for analysis, irrespective of time and place. Localised input-output relations between the actors of the system, knowledge spillovers and their untraded interdependencies lie at the centre of the argument.The paper is organized as follows. It introduces the reader, first, to some basic elements and concepts that are central to understanding the approach. The characteristics of the innovation process are examined: its nature, sources and some of the factors shaping its development. Particular emphasis is laid on the role of knowledge creation and dissemination based on the fundamental distinction between codified and tacit forms. These concepts recur throughout the paper and particularly in discussions on the nature and specifications of the systems approach. The paper concludes by summarizing some of the major findings of the discussion and pointing to some directions for future research activities.

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The Innovation Process and Network Activities of Manufacturing Firms

Innovation, Networks, and Knowledge Spillovers

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Innovation networks of manufacturers are currently receiving much attention as a competitive strategy. The contribution represents a response to the growing recognition that there are very important reasons why we need a better understanding of the relationship between innovation and networking. This response is conceptual in form, but enriched with some empirical evidence from the metropolitan region of Vienna. The paper demonstrates unambiguously the importance of external network activities during the innovation process that are organized around five types of networks: customer networks, manufacturing supplier networks, producer service supplier networks, producer networks and co-operation with research institutions and departments of universities. The data clearly indicate that networking is not only and primarily a metropolitan phenomenon. Spatial proximity is just one, but evidently not the decisive criterion for innovation-oriented relationships. The geography of networking largely extends to national and international levels.

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Technology, Employment, and Regional Competitiveness

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Technological innovation and interfirm cooperation: an exploratory analysis using survey data from manufacturing firms in the metropolitan region of Vienna

Technological innovation and interfirm cooperation: an exploratory analysis using survey data from manufacturing firms in the metropolitan region of Vienna

Innovation, knowledge creation and systems of innovation

The Innovation Process and Network Activities of Manufacturing Firms

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