Technology Transfer and Industrial Change in Europe

by Lawton Smith, Helen

• ISBN13: 9780312231101
• ISBN10: 0312231105
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-06-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book critically examines the phenomenon and the consequences of the increasing inter-dependence between industry, universities, and national laboratories. It explores the contrasts and similarities between the patterns of formal and informal links in a technologically dynamic industry with those in a traditional industry in the UK, France, and Belgium. It uses evidence from interviews with firms, academics, and industry organizations in the three counties to identify the major factors which regulate links.

Author Biography

Helen Lawton Smith is Research Fellow at the Center for Local Economic Development at Coventry University.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
List of Figures	ix
Preface and Acknowledgement	x
List of Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
Part One: Background
Territories of Innovation: Innovation as a Collective Process and the Globalization of Competition	15	(19)
Erik Swyngedouw
The Regulatory Context: International, National and Regional Components	34	(35)
Industry, University and National Laboratory Links	69	(30)
Part Two: Industrial Change
The Organization of Industry Filieres in the Flow Measurement and Electronic Component Industries	99	(32)
Part Three: Comparative Analysis
Externalization Patterns in the Flow Measuring Industry	131	(28)
The Views of Universities and National Laboratories: the Flow Measurement Industry	159	(19)
Externalization Patterns in the Electronics Component Industry	178	(27)
The Views of Universities and National Laboratories: the Electronic Components Industry	205	(22)
Part Four: Conclusions
Innovation Filieres and the Geography of Innovation	227	(26)
References	253	(12)
Appendix	265	(2)
Index	267