Innovation projects and local production networks: A case study of Hertfordshire

Autor: Douglas Hart, James Simmie
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: European Planning Studies. 7:445-462
ISSN: 1469-5944
0965-4313
DOI: 10.1080/09654319908720529
Popis: This paper evaluates some of the key arguments underlying what is called here the local production network paradigm (LPNP). These are presented as three interlinked hypotheses that turn on the idea that firms competing in world markets need to accommodate continuous change by fostering product or process innovation. The definition of innovation used in this study is “the commercially successful exploitation of new technologies, ideas or methods through the introduction of new products or processes, or through the improvement of existing ones” (EC DG XIII, 1996, p. 54). One conventionally described organizational response to this requirement to accommodate continuous innovation is to dis‐integrate firms and set up local production networks. Local production networks are defined in this study as “collaborative linkages between local firms and local factors of production”. Such networks are said to rely on local resources of various kinds to enable them to innovate on a continuous and incremental ba...
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