| Technological Systems and Industrial Dynamics 1997 Edition Contributor(s): Carlsson, B. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0792399722 ISBN-13: 9780792399728 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $208.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1997 Annotation: What is the relationship between technological innovation and economic growth? In Technological Systems and Industrial Dynamics, this question is answered through an analysis of four ??technological systems - factory automation, electronics and computers, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, and powder technology - and their impact on Sweden's economic performance. The volume begins with an overview of how the technological systems studied here relate to Sweden's overall technological profile. It then provides an in-depth explanation of each of the four chosen technological systems. The analysis continues with a survey of the literature on technological spillovers, a presentation of the results of simulations of the macroeconomic effects of spillovers, and a summary of the framework for studying technological systems derived from the four cases. The book concludes with a discussion of key lessons and issues for policy-makers, both public and private. Technological Systems and Industrial Dynamics will serve as a unique reference for scholars and practitioners of innovation and technological change, economics, industrial organization and public policy. It is the second in a series of three research publications sponsored by the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Entrepreneurship - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Business & Economics | Economics - Macroeconomics |
| Dewey: 338.04 |
| LCCN: 97016536 |
| Series: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.07 lbs) 329 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume consitutes a summary of several years' multi-disciplinary research by a group of Swedish researchers. The project 'Sweden's Technological Systems and Future Development Potential' was initiated by the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development (NUTEK) and has been carried out at the Department of Industrial Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, the Research Policy Institute at the University of Lund, the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research (lUI) in Stockholm, and the Department of Industrial Economics and Management at the Royal Insitute of Technology, Stockholm, under the direction of Bo Carlsson, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. The project group decided early on to focus fIrst on the technological system for factory automation - a relatively mature system of great importance to Swedish industry and in which Sweden has reached a leading position internationally - and then to shift the attention to other systems in various stages of development and with varying Swedish strength. The work on factory automation resulted in numerous papers and publications, summarized in a volume published in 1995 (Technological Systems and Economic Performance: The Case of Factory Automation, ed. Bo Carlsson. Dordrecht. |