... of a
6 Technology, knowledge and the firm
PART ONE
Knowledge and the firm
no dominant design for the FCV, and the industry is split between using
hydrogen, methanol or gasoline as the fuel for fuel ... innovation. The development and use of these technologies have
consequences for our understanding of the management of knowledge
and innovation and hence...
... required
coordination and transaction. There is no analysis of the knowledge and
the competence necessary to coordinate and use the markets respectively
and hence little room is left for understanding the process ... 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 techno...
... consumed
as they are produced in 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 one and the same change. ... process and activity. The problem
for both academics conceptualizing the process and for firms themselves
is how wide should they conceive the proce...
... from the former PK-bank, while the bank personnel came from
the former Upplandsbanken. This created some minor problems in the
beginning whenthepersonnel had to learn howthemachines and the system
worked. ... office. The name of the telephone bank service was changed to
‘Nordbanken Direkt’. The slow growth continued for a couple of years and
the management at the telep...
... another firm. This firm played the role of
a distributorthatsuppliedthe interfacebetween thebankand theclientsand
the corresponding technologies. The bank transmitted to the other firm the
information ... competition on the one hand, with call centres, and on the other
hand, with PC connections in the near future. It was acknowledged that the
work on the BDT platform was ru...
... analyse the structure and composition of firms’
relationships – with regards to their access to scientific and technological
knowledge and the markets – and we will attempt to understand the motives
and ... formal
start-up.
technologies, the resources available and the background of the entrepre-
neurs. On the other hand, while access to technological knowledge is...
... 91–114.
Arora, A. A. Fosfuri and A. Gambardella (2001), ‘Markets for technology and their
implications for corporate strategy , Industrial and Corporate Change, 10 (2),
419–51.
Arundel, A. and A. Geuna (2001), ... sources; (2) the conditions in which
they searched for these sources and their ability to gain access to and estab-
lish relationships with them, as well...
... its handling and
processing of milk in agriculture and dairies also ranked high on the agenda
of these GRIs. Furthermore, their science was needed to back the formula-
tion of standards and regulations ... is 18 patents. The average for the 12 themes
included in the analysis in this chapter is 24 patents.
218 Innovation and firm strategy
Table A8.1 Statistics on 23 R&...
... institutes and other
232 Innovation and firm strategy
2. A THEORY OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS
The requirement for a macroeconomic model to 2100 leads us to the con-
clusion that there is a need for a ... the advance of the firm relies; – includes not only codified knowledge, but also
tacit knowledge and knowledge embedded in equipment, instruments and the plant. The...
... 11.1. The data are for the
Japanese market except that of ethylene for the USA on the basis of MITI
(2000) and UN (1996).
270 Long-term technological change and the economy
10
1
0.1
1960 70
Polypropylene
F ... industry and created the basis for the success
of the VLSI project carried out between 1976 and 1979 in which the five
leading companies within the...