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Over the past decade, the industrial economies have witnessed a wave of economic and political change that most find difficult to comprehend. The phrase that keeps reappearing in attempts to explain this phenomenon is ‘a shift in the tectonic plates’ that shape our society (Stewart 1997, xvii). At the root of this change are three interrelated processes: the emergence of a new information technology paradigm that is dramatically altering the economic calculus of production and distribution throughout the industrial economies; the phenomenon of globalization which is intensifying the linkages and interdependence between the economies of Europe, North America and East Asia; and the gradual replacement of the old Taylorist and Fordist methods of mass production with a new paradigm of innovation-mediated production. A critical part of all three processes is the increasing reliance on knowledge and information in the economic activities that create value in capitalist economies.
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Gertler, M.S., Wolfe, D.A., Garkut, D. (1998). The Dynamics of Regional Innovation in Ontario. In: de La Mothe, J., Paquet, G. (eds) Local and Regional Systems of Innovation. Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5551-3_11
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