IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/anresc/v31y1997i3p235-258.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Product development, innovation networks, infrastructure and agglomeration economies

Author

Listed:
  • Charlie Karlsson

    (JÃnkÃping International Business School, JÃnkÃping University, P.O. Box 1026, S-55111 JÃnkÃping, Sweden)

Abstract

The continuos inflow of new products is a fundamental condition for a well-functioning market economy. It has been argued that new products are the outcome of a process which is based upon the principle "novelty by combination". This characterization applies well to the type of product development analyzed in this paper, which comprises the development of new products and the renewal of old products in the Swedish engineering industry through the adoption of a specific type of innovation, namely the incorporation of information technology based components and their pertinent software, i.e. microelectronics. According to the theoretical perspective presented in the paper, a new or a renewed product may result from "random collisions" or from a cautious matching between technical opportunities and customer needs. A necessary condition for such "collisions" or matching to occur is communication and, hence, communication in innovation networks is one key factor in product development. The empirical part of the paper contains an empirical test of the role of establishment characteristics, innovation networks, infrastructure endowment and agglomeration economies for the first use of micro-electronics in product development at the plant level. The empirical results seem to confirm the importance of innovation networks as well as of infrastructure endowment and agglomeration economies for an early use of micro-electronics in product development.

Suggested Citation

  • Charlie Karlsson, 1997. "Product development, innovation networks, infrastructure and agglomeration economies," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 31(3), pages 235-258.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:anresc:v:31:y:1997:i:3:p:235-258
    Note: Received: October 1994 / Accepted in revised form: November 1996
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00168/papers/7031003/70310235.pdf
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted
    File URL: http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00168/papers/7031003/70310235.ps.gz
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Rosenkranz, Stephanie, 2003. "Simultaneous choice of process and product innovation when consumers have a preference for product variety," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 50(2), pages 183-201, February.
    2. Andræs Barge-Gil, 2013. "Open Strategies and Innovation Performance," Industry and Innovation, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(7), pages 585-610, October.
    3. Ejermo, Olof & Karlsson, Charlie, 2006. "Interregional inventor networks as studied by patent coinventorships," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 35(3), pages 412-430, April.
    4. Martin Andersson & Charlie Karlsson, 2004. "The role of accessibility for the performance of regional innovation systems," Chapters, in: Charlie Karlsson & Per Flensburg & Sven-Åke Hörte (ed.), Knowledge Spillovers and Knowledge Management, chapter 10, pages 283-310, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    5. Karl Wennberg & Göran Lindqvist, 2010. "The effect of clusters on the survival and performance of new firms," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 34(3), pages 221-241, April.
    6. Olof Ejermo & Börje Johansson, 2003. "Process Innovations in a Duopoly with Two Regions," ERSA conference papers ersa03p265, European Regional Science Association.
    7. Samira Oukarfi & Maurice Baslé, 2009. "Public-sector financial incentives for business relocation and effectiveness measures based on company profile and geographic zone," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 43(2), pages 509-526, June.
    8. Börje Johansson & Thomas Paulsson, 2009. "Location of New Industries: The ICT Sector 1990–2000," Chapters, in: Charlie Karlsson & Börje Johansson & Roger R. Stough (ed.), Innovation, Agglomeration and Regional Competition, chapter 11, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    9. Pierre Therrien, 2005. "City and innovation: Different size, different strategy," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(6), pages 853-877, September.
    10. Ejermo, Olof & Karlsson, Charlie, 2004. "Spatial Inventor Networks As Studied by Patent Coinventorship," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 17, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies.
    11. Patricia Hemert & Peter Nijkamp & Enno Masurel, 2013. "From innovation to commercialization through networks and agglomerations: analysis of sources of innovation, innovation capabilities and performance of Dutch SMEs," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 50(2), pages 425-452, April.
    12. Wennberg, Karl & Lindqvist, Göran, 2007. "How do entrepreneurs in clusters contribute to economic growth?," SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Business Administration 2008:3, Stockholm School of Economics.
    13. Elodie Gardet & Pierre-Laurent Felix, 2013. "Methods for distributing results in exploratory partnerships," Post-Print hal-01287002, HAL.
    14. Elodie Gardet & Caroline Danièle Mothe, 2010. "L'évolution du degré de dépendance du pivot au sein de réseaux d'innovation," Post-Print hal-00936920, HAL.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:anresc:v:31:y:1997:i:3:p:235-258. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.