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Technology Transfer and Industrial Change in Europe

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Helen Lawton Smith

    1. Centre for Local Economic Development, Coventry Business School, Coventry University, Senior Research Associate, School of Geography, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Helen Lawton Smith
      Pages 1-13

  6. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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    2. Innovation Filieres and the Geography of Innovation

      • Helen Lawton Smith
      Pages 229-252

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 253-281
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This book critically examines the phenomenon and the consequences of the increasing inter-dependence between industry, universities and national laboratories. It explores the contrasts and similarities between the patterns of formal and informal links in a technologically dynamic industry (electronic components) with those in a traditional industry (flow measurement) in the UK, France and Belgium. It uses evidence from interviews with firms, academics and industry organisations in the three countries to identify the major factors which regulate links.

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'...highly topical...provides a genuine insight into the practicalities of technology transfer and the implications for industrial change within Europe.' - Geoff Whittam, Department of Economics and Enterprise, Paisley Business School, University of Paisley

'The author should be commended for undertaking an important piece of work that has provided an advanced understanding of technology transfer and industrial change...a scholarly piece of work, will be useful as a supplemental reading for advanced economic geography and related courses.' - S.L. Brian Ceh, Economic Geography

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Local Economic Development, Coventry Business School, Coventry University, Senior Research Associate, School of Geography, UK

    Helen Lawton Smith

About the author

HELEN LAWTON SMITH is Reader in Local Economic Development, Centre for Local Economic Development at Coventry University and Senior Research Associate, School of Geography. She is also Director of Science Policy Studies of the Regulatory Policy Research Centre (RPRC) at Hertford College, Oxford University. She is the co-editor (with Nick Woodward) of Energy and the Environment.

ERIK SWYNGEDOUW is University Reader in Economic Geography at Oxford University and Fellow of St Peter's College. His research interests are political-economy and political-ecology and the dynamics of socio-economic change.

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