Driven by rapid technological developments, greater customer expectations, and increased product complexity, product development processes increasingly rely on the integration of dispersed specialist knowledge. Consequently, many industrial firms are changing the way they approach product development. Product development increasingly relies on knowledge integration across firm boundaries. Custo...

This paper addresses the issue of technogenesis and its geographical pattern. It aims to offer both a general framework and test on innovation data from several European cities. This framework is built mainly on the product life-cycle and the incubation approach. Further, it is argued that the phases of an industrial life-cycle have several firm-specific effects. First, these phases influence i...

Universities are increasingly portrayed as knowledge-producing entities that can play a role in providing knowledge for business and industry. Through the use of both social network analysis and regression analysis, the aim of this paper is to analyse the knowledge links between UK universities and large industrial R&D performers located in the UK. We find that those universities with a greater...

Working Paper Series Abstract Hierarchy is a generic structure in which levels are asymmetrically ordered. In an industry setting, classic supply chains display strict hierarchy, whereas clusters of firms have linkages going in many different directions. Previous theory has often assumed the existence of the hierarchical relationships among firms and empirical work has focused on a single level...

Introduction The following document explores some critical points connected with the possible adoption of ecosystem models for industrial production. It is necessitated by the desire to underscore some fundamental questions possibly arised by policies trying to introduce or implementing forms of systemic interaction for firms. Such questions are essentially directed to a better knowledge about ...

a r t i c l e i n f o If localization economies are present, firms within denser industry concentrations should exhibit higher levels of performance than more isolated firms. Nevertheless, research in industrial organization that has fo-cused on the influences on firm survival has largely ignored the potential effects from agglomeration. Recent studies in urban and regional economics suggest th...

Industrial ecology, promoted as a discipline of ‘sustainability science,’ applies ecological concepts to industrial systems to improve their sustainability. Concepts such as diversity, food webs and nutrient recycling have been investigated for industrial systems. Complex systems theory may also prove to be an appropriate framework for industrial systems research. This framework can identify th...

This paper has presented research in progress concerning the contribution of target costing approach to achievement competitive price in the Iraqi firm. The title of the paper is one of the subjects that get large concerns in the finance and business world in the present time. That is because many competitive firms have appeared in the regional and global markets and the rapid changes that cove...

We incorporate an endogenous choice of qualification into a standard New Economic Geography model: workers can choose to invest time to acquire skills in order to work in the industrial sector and earn a higher wage. Hence, expenditures in a given country depend on the number of firms in that country, giving rise to a standard circular causation mechanism as in Krugman [9]. However, our model r...