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Innovation in low-tech firms and industries / edited by Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen and David Jacobson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Industrial dynamics, entrepreneurship and innovationEdward Elgar, 2008Description: xv, 296 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781847208231
  • 1847208231
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC79.T4 INN
Contents:
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Introduction; 1. The low-tech issue; PART I Innovation in LMT: conditions and requirements; 2. How to grasp innovativeness of organizations: outline of a conceptual tool; 3. Standard-setting competition and open innovation in non-HT industries: mechanical engineering and machinery; 4. The moral economy of technology indicators; 5. Critical comments on the 'moral economy of technology indicators'; PART II Technological diffusion and interrelationships between sectors. 6. Distributed knowledge bases in low and medium-technology industries7. LMT innovations in a high-tech environment: human-factor 'tools' for the airline industry; 8. Technology fusion and organizational structures in low-and-medium-tech companies; 9. Industrial innovations in relation to service sectors; 10. The relevance of services for high-, medium- and low-tech firms an empirical analysis in German industry; PART III Local versus global perspectives in innovation; 11. Innovation
Summary: It is a general understanding that the advanced economies are undergoing a fundamental transformation into knowledge-based societies. There is a belief that this is based on the development of high-tech industries. This work offers a discussion concerning the relevance of low-tech industries for industrial innovativeness in the knowledge economy
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Book Book PostGraduate Studies Library Open Shelf HC79.T4 INN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 160072 Available BK148104

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Introduction; 1. The low-tech issue; PART I Innovation in LMT: conditions and requirements; 2. How to grasp innovativeness of organizations: outline of a conceptual tool; 3. Standard-setting competition and open innovation in non-HT industries: mechanical engineering and machinery; 4. The moral economy of technology indicators; 5. Critical comments on the 'moral economy of technology indicators'; PART II Technological diffusion and interrelationships between sectors. 6. Distributed knowledge bases in low and medium-technology industries7. LMT innovations in a high-tech environment: human-factor 'tools' for the airline industry; 8. Technology fusion and organizational structures in low-and-medium-tech companies; 9. Industrial innovations in relation to service sectors; 10. The relevance of services for high-, medium- and low-tech firms
an empirical analysis in German industry; PART III Local versus global perspectives in innovation; 11. Innovation

It is a general understanding that the advanced economies are undergoing a fundamental transformation into knowledge-based societies. There is a belief that this is based on the development of high-tech industries. This work offers a discussion concerning the relevance of low-tech industries for industrial innovativeness in the knowledge economy

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