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Technological Systems and Economic Performance: The Case of Factory Automation

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Editors:
  1. Bo Carlsson

    1. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

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Part of the book series: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation (ESTI, volume 5)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Bo Carlsson
    Pages 1-19

  3. On the Nature, Function and Composition of Technological Systems

    • Bo Carlsson, Rikard Stankiewicz
    Pages 21-56

  4. The Nature and Importance of Economic Competence

    • Bo Carlsson, Gunnar Eliasson
    Pages 57-87

  5. Mapping an Evolving Technology Cluster: The Composition and Structure of Factory Automation

    • Anders Granberg
    Pages 89-117

  6. The Academic Infrastructure of Factory Automation

    • Anders Granberg
    Pages 119-164

  7. The Role of the Science and Technology Infrastructure in the Development and Diffusion of Industrial Automation in Sweden

    • Rikard Stankiewicz
    Pages 165-210

  8. Sourcing of Advanced Manufacturing Technology: The Role of Customer-Supplier Interaction

    • Kjell Tryggestad
    Pages 211-239

  9. What Makes the Automation Industry Strategic?

    • Bo Carlsson, Staffan Jacobsson
    Pages 241-261

  10. A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Supplier Industries

    • Ellinor Ehrnberg, Staffan Jacobsson
    Pages 263-272

  11. Technological Discontinuities and Company Strategies—Machine Tools and Flexible Manufacturing Systems

    • Ellinor Ehrnberg, Staffan Jacobsson
    Pages 273-322

  12. Diffusion and Industrial Dynamics in the Robot Industry

    • Kristina Dahlin
    Pages 323-357

  13. The Importance of Economic Competence in Economic Growth: A Micro-To-Macro Analysis

    • Bo Carlsson, Erol Taymaz
    Pages 359-389

  14. The Economic Impact of Factory Automation

    • Bo Carlsson, Erol Taymaz, Kjell Tryggestad
    Pages 391-416

  15. Factory Automation and Government Policy

    • Bo Carlsson, Staffan Jacobsson
    Pages 417-440

  16. The Technological System for Factory Automation: An International Comparison

    • Bo Carlsson
    Pages 441-475

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 477-495
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About this book

In 1987 the Swedish National Board for Technical Development (STU, later becoming the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development, NUTEK) initiated a study of Sweden's Technological Systems and Future Development Potential. A comprehensive, interdisciplinary study was envisioned, yielding not only useful insight but also a permanent competence base for future analyses of technological systems and technology policy in Sweden. Three leading Swedish research institutes were invited to participate: the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research in Stockholm, the Department ofIndustrial Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, and the Research Policy Institute at the University of Lund. I was invited to direct the project. The project group decided to focus initially on a particular technological system, namely factory automation, to be followed by similar studies of other systems. Numerous publications have resulted from the project thus far. The current volume represents a summary of our work on factory automation. It consists of several original essays and of some previously published papers which have been edited, in some cases substantially, in order to form a comprehensive and coherent picture of a technological system. To our knowledge, this is the first in-depth analysis of a technological system designed as a component of a systematic study of technological systems more generally. At the time of this writing, three further studies on electronics and computers, pharmaceuticals, and powder technology are under way, to be published in a later volume.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

    Bo Carlsson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Technological Systems and Economic Performance: The Case of Factory Automation

  • Editors: Bo Carlsson

  • Series Title: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0145-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3512-2Published: 31 July 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4065-5Published: 05 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-0145-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1381-0480

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 495

  • Topics: Microeconomics, Operations Management, Economic Policy

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