1st Edition

New Technology and Regional Development

Edited By Bert Van Der Knapp, Egbert Wever Copyright 1987

    First Published in 2004. Since the second half of the seventies, a period of economic recession, a growing interest for technological change can be noticed in all ‘old’ industrial countries. The reason for this phenomenon is the conviction that the economic future of these countries will depend to a large degree on their ability to create new products and processes and to make these commercially viable. Hence the stimulation and subsidising of all kinds of Research and Development (R&D) activities by the governments of these countries. Against this background it was certainly not unexpected that the IGU Commisson on Industrial Change, presided by Godfrey Linge, decided to organise a congress on ‘Technology and Industrial Change.’ This congress was held in August 1985 at Nijmegen in the Netherlands. In this book some of the papers presented there are published. We are very happy that we were allowed to include the very interesting contributions of the representatives of Philips in Eindhoven and of the European Commission in Brussels.

    Preface, Bert Van Der Knapp, Egbert Wever; Chapter 1 Technology and Industrial Change: An Overview, G.A.van der Knaap Dr., Professor, G.J.R. Linge Dr., Professorial Fellow, E. Wever Dr., Professor; Chapter 2 The Innovation Factor in the Process of Microeconomic Industrial Change: Conceptual Explorations, M.D. Thomas Dr., Professor; Chapter 3 Research, Development and Innovation in the Segmented Economy: Spatial Implications, C.S. Morphet Dr., Senior Lecturer in Geography; Chapter 4 Strategy Formulation, Organisational Learning, and Location, J.W. Harrington Jr.; Chapter 5 Enterprise and the Product-Cycle Model: Conceptual Ambiguities, M. Taylor Dr., Senior Research Fellow; Chapter 6 Technological Change and Space Demand in Industrial Plants, R. Grotz Dr., Professor; Chapter 7 Technology and Industrial Change: The Role of The European Community Regional Development Policy, P.S.R.F. Mathijsen Prof., Director General for Regional Policy; Chapter 8 Technology Parks and Interregional Competition in the Federal Republic of Germany, Eike W. Schamp; Chapter 9 Philips in the World A View of a Multinational on Resource Allocation, J. Muntendam Dr.; Chapter 10 Innovation Decision-Making in Small and Medium-Sized Firms a Behavioural Approach concerning Firms in the Dutch Urban System, J.A.A.M. Kok Drs., P.H. Pellenbarg Dr.; Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven the Spatial Pattern of High-Growth Activities in the Netherlands, E. Wever Dr., Professor;

    Biography

    Bert Van Der Knapp, Egbert Wever