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  • "This paper focuses on the overall background for the present discussion within advanced industrialized countries on the future for low-tech industries and the restructuring within or from them. Three partly interrelated phenomena on the macro level are analysed: the globalization process, the international high-tech competition and the long term escape from industrial activity towards a 'post-industrial' society and economy. The conventional wisdom provided by these macro-level phenomena on the strength of the structural change ahead of us are, however, challenged in three ways: stylized facts show large differences in performance indicating vast potentials for industrial creativity also where you would not expect them; there is among economists a growing interest on the creative and innovative aspects of industrial activities, thus providing new tools for the understanding of these phenomena. Finally, scrapping on the surface of industrial creativity and knowledge formation shows a complexity leading us far away from the simple dichotomy between 'high-tech' and 'low tech', a criterion normally based on R&D-intensity. The conclusion is that the 'footlooseness' of industrial activity is far from total; a fact which to a large extent is related to the systemic character of industrial creativity and knowledge formation. It is also argued that the breaking away from Fordism creates large potentials for utilising the slumbering creativity of the employees in maturing industries. Although these organisational and learning schemes may be classified as low-tech they may nevertheless contribute to important changes in productivity and product improvement." (author's abstract) (xsd:string)
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  • 1999 (xsd:gyear)
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  • Know-how in a low tech company: chances for being competitive in a globalized economy (xsd:string)
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