Spatial Diffusion of Information Technology in Sweden

Anderstig, Christer; Karlsson, Charlie

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-95597-6_12

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“…Such a regional influence has been emphasised by e.g. Thwaites et al (1981Thwaites et al ( , 1982, Ewers (1980), Anderstig and Karlsson (1989) and Fischer and Menschik (1990). Our basic hypothesis as regards infrastructure focusses on the conditions for nearby person contacts.…”

Section: Innovation Network and Spatial Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 96%

Networks for Process Innovation by Firms: Conjectures from Observations in Three Countries

Fischer

Johansson

1994

Advances in Spatial and Network Economics

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Section: Innovation Network and Spatial Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 96%

Networks for Process Innovation by Firms: Conjectures from Observations in Three Countries

Fischer

Johansson

1994

Advances in Spatial and Network Economics

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“…(ii) To base the assessment on adopters only and, hence, leave out the information available about non-adopters. (iii) To use logit analysis (Oster and Quigley, 1977;Oster, 1982;Anderstig and Karlsson, 1989). (iv) To use tobit analysis (Oster, 1982;Akinola and Young, 1985).…”

Section: The Data and The Estimation Proceduresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Product development, innovation networks, infrastructure and agglomeration economies

Karlsson

1997

The Annals of Regional Science

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The continuos inflow of new products is a fundamental condition for a well-functioning market economy. It has been argued that new products are the outcome of a process which is based upon the principle "novelty by combination". This characterization applies well to the type of product development analyzed in this paper, which comprises the development of new products and the renewal of old products in the Swedish engineering industry through the adoption of a specific type of innovation, namely the incorporation of information technology based components and their pertinent software, i.e. microelectronics. According to the theoretical perspective presented in the paper, a new or a renewed product may result from "random collisions" or from a cautious matching between technical opportunities and customer needs. A necessary condition for such "collisions" or matching to occur is communication and, hence, communication in innovation networks is one key factor in product development. The empirical part of the paper contains an empirical test of the role of establishment characteristics, innovation networks, infrastructure endowment and agglomeration economies for the first use of micro-electronics in product development at the plant level. The empirical results seem to confirm the importance of innovation networks as well as of infrastructure endowment and agglomeration economies for an early use of micro-electronics in product development.

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“…Product competition signifies market behaviour where the individual supplier uses the combination of attributes of own products including delivery conditions and sales and after sales services as the most important measure to attract customers away from his competitors (Johansson, 1988). The two competition strategies correspond to two innovation strategies (Anderstig & Karlsson, 1989):…”

Section: The Role Of Large Urban Regions As Creative Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%