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Spatial and Organizational Patterns of the Transfer of New Economic Knowledge: A Survey of the Literature and Some Preliminary Results from a Case Study

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Competition has increased to a great extent in markets for national and international goods and services: by the introduction and enlargement of the Common Market; by the opening of Central- and East-European countries; and by the general globalization of the markets for goods, services, and resources. The internationalization of competition is requiring a higher degree of adaptability of industries, sectors, and regions: to technological and organizational progress with ever shorter product life-cycles; to cost-cutting and higher productivity by such means as “lean production”, “team production”, “in- and/or outsourcing”; to the functional division of labor across space; and to an increase of non-price competition, especially in the prevailing oligopolistic markets in which all kinds of informational first-mover advantages are relevant (Demsetz 1982; Marris & Mueller 1980; Koutsoyiannis 1982). In contestable markets these informational leads will only exist temporarily. In markets with barriers to entry they may permit long-term monopolistic behavior and market dominance (Martin 1993; see also Gerosky 1987).

The research underlying this paper has been assisted by grants from the Committee for Research and Academic Education of the University of Paderborn and from the Ministry for Science and Research of the Federal State of North-Rhine Westphalia. The author wishes to thank them both. The empirical field work is being carried out by Jochen Ulfrich. The author appreciates valuable comments on earlier drafts of this paper by the participants of the Research Seminar of the Department of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Paderborn. The author also wishes to thank for valuable help received from G. Eberlein, B. M. Gilroy, and W. Rothfritz.

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Liepmann, P. (1999). Spatial and Organizational Patterns of the Transfer of New Economic Knowledge: A Survey of the Literature and Some Preliminary Results from a Case Study. In: Gries, T., Suhl, L. (eds) Economic Aspects of Digital Information Technologies. Deutscher Universitätsverlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-85190-1_4

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