Knowledge and Industrial Organization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. From the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Economy

   1. From the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Economy

      • Åke E. Andersson, David F. Batten, Charlie Karlsson

      Pages 1-13

3. Industrial Organization in the Knowledge Economy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Intelligent Factor Inputs

      1. Productivity in Manufacturing and the Division of Mental Labor

         • Pravin Varaiya

         Pages 17-23

      2. What Have We Learned in the Path from Gödel and Turing to Artificial Intelligence?

         • Kumaraswamy Velupillai

         Pages 25-30

   3. Knowledge Development and Diffusion

      1. Knowledge, Nodes and Networks: An Analytical Perspective

         • David F. Batten, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Åke E. Andersson

         Pages 31-46

      2. Innovation, Diffusion and Regions

         • Manfred M. Fischer

         Pages 47-61

      3. Technological and Institutional Innovations in the Service Sector

         • T. R. Lakshmanan

         Pages 63-79

      4. Research and Development, Corporate Organisation and Industrial Location: Prospects for Regional Development

         • Jeremy Howells

         Pages 81-99

      5. Diffusion of Technological Change and Economic Growth

         • Yannis M. Ioannides

         Pages 101-111

4. Technological and Economic Interactions: Some Empirial Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Long Cycles of Technological Transition

      1. The Barrier-Breakthrough Model of Innovation and the Life Cycle Model of Industrial Evolution as Applied to the U.S. Electrical Industry

         • Robert U. Ayres

         Pages 115-132

      2. The Evolution of High Technology in the Boston Region 1920–1980

         • Sam Bass Warner Jr.

         Pages 133-141

      3. Innovation, R and D, and Firm Growth in Robotics: Japan and the United States

         • Edwin Mansfield

         Pages 143-155

      4. Spatial Diffusion of Information Technology in Sweden

         • Christer Anderstig, Charlie Karlsson

         Pages 157-176

      5. Innovative Behaviour of Industrial Firms: Results From a Dutch Empirical Study

         • Evert Jan Davelaar, Peter Nijkamp

         Pages 177-186

      6. Innovating Behaviour of Swiss Industry — Findings and Policy Conclusions

         • Beat Hotz-Hart

         Pages 187-196

   3. R&D and Property Rights

      1. Infrastructure for Technological Change: Intellectual Property Rights

         • Derek L. Bosworth, R. A. Wilson

         Pages 197-215

5. The Political Economy of Structural Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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   2. Interdependencies between Industrial and Regional Structural Change in the USA

      1. High-Technology Location and Worker Mobility in the U.S.

         • Henry W. Herzog Jr., Alan M. Schlottmann

         Pages 219-232

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at an international symposium on research and development, industrial change and economic policy organized and hosted by the University of Karlstad, Viinnland, Sweden. Situated about halfway between Stockholm and Oslo, Karlstad stands on the River Klara, which reaches north into the mountains of Norway. Founded by King Charles IX of Sweden, whose statue stands in the city centre beside the river, the city celebrated its 400th anniversary in 1984. For many decades the wealth of Karlstad has been based on traditional industries such as iron, timber and paper, and throughout the province of Viinnland there are a considerable number of industrial communities which grew up around mines, ironworks, sawmills and papermills. Even the cultural structure of these communities is heavily marked by the industrial environment in which they developed. However, for over a decade now a major structural reorientation has been taking place and the old industrial structures have been disappearing. For various reasons the importance of large scale, manufacturing companies has declined and as a result of intense development work with new ideas, new entrepreneurs and new technology, we have seen the rapid rise of small companies. In this context, recent research has shown that universities playing an increasingly central role in regional development. Thus the continued development of the University of Karlstad is of significant regional and national interest. Although fairly small in an international perspective (approximately 4000 students) the university is expanding rapidly.

• Forschung
• High Tech
• High-Technology
• Import
• innovation
• interaction
• mobility
• organization
• organizations
• regional development
• research
• research & development (R&D)
• science and technology
• technology policy
• technology transfer

• Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden

  Åke E. Andersson

• Department of Economics, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden

  David F. Batten

• Department of Economics, University of Karlstad, Karlstad, Sweden

  Charlie Karlsson

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