This paper explores the “black box” of innovation in the electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping … exercise of technological capabilities and an econometric analysis of exporting in the People's Republic of China (PRC … behavior and complement the literature on production networks. The econometric results confirm the importance of foreign …

This study examines the relationships between inter-firm networking and innovation within industrial clusters in a … developing context. Based on a unique dataset that was collected through a large-scale survey with firms in China's information … networks than state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China. Finally, firms in industrial satellite Suzhou and Dongguan were less …

This Think Piece explores how integration into international trade through global networks of production (GPNs) and … innovation (GINs) might affect a region's innovation capacity. As regions across the globe are progressively integrated into … might progressive integration of its firms into GPNs and GINs affect learning, capability development and innovation? Will …

initially weak national production and innovation systems. Second, a greater variety of international knowledge linkages is … organizational innovation: the spread of global production networks (GPN) combines concentrated dispersion with systemic integration …The paper addresses disruptive changes that globalization imposes on the geography of innovation systems, and …

In a generation’s time, collaborative methods of innovation have become a centerpiece of modern economic organization … innovation processes cross firm boundaries. This collaborative approach gives a firm access to external expertise without …, innovation networks often appear too dynamic and heterogeneous for the typical prerequisites for informal constraints to readily …

beginning to emerge for Japanese production networks in Asia, with particular reference to the role of China. I conclude with a …The focus of this paper is on the evolution of international production by Japanese electronics firms. In the first two … parts, I trace the development of Japanese production networks in Asia through three different periods. Each of these …

beginning to emerge for Japanese production networks in Asia, with particular reference to the role of China. I conclude with a …The focus of this paper is on the evolution of international production by Japanese electronics firms. In the first two … parts, I trace the development of Japanese production networks in Asia through three different periods. Each of these …

This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …