... Richards and V. Walsh
Technology and the Market: Demand, Users and Innovation 20 01
ISBN: 1 84064 469 9
18 Knowledge and the firm
advantages for the automaker are significant. First, the market demands
regular ... innovation. The development and use of these technologies have
consequences for our understanding of the management of knowledge
and innovation an...
... manage-
ment of knowledge and innovation and the construction of the resources,
routines and capabilities that are the basis of competitiveness. For these
24 Knowledge and the firm
Argyres, N. S. (19 95), ... the procedures and the skills that are necessary to use
the markets, are key to understanding the firm. A clear understanding of the
role of technological...
... capabil-
ity of the firm (Langlois and Cosgel, 19 98, pp. 11 0 11 ), which involves a
process of learning for consumers (Loasby, 19 98, p. 98; Robertson and Yu,
20 01, p. 19 0; Witt, 20 01, pp. 28– 31) . It can ... the sense that the change in the condition of the
consumer unit must occur simultaneously with the production of that
change by the producer: they are on...
... dis-
tinguished in the 12 years to 2002: (1) 19 90 19 96, (2) 19 97 19 99, and (3)
2000–2002.
3.3 .1 Period 1: 19 90 19 96
In the period 19 90 19 96 FC technology was still very much in the research
stages, and experimental. ... another firm. This firm played the role of
a distributorthatsuppliedthe interfacebetween thebankand theclientsand
the corresponding technologies....
... Total
60
70
80
90
10 0
11 0
12 0
13 0
14 0
15 0
16 0
19 96
Semiconductors
19 97 19 98 19 99 2000 20 01
Worldwide some 290 000 articles were published in the period 19 96–
20 01. The total publication output by the corporate ... (major)
partners, the more prone these partnerships seem to be to disseminate this
238 Innovation and firm strategy
60
70
80
90
10 0
11 0
12...