Co-development and composite clusters - the secular strength of Nordic telecommunications
2003 (English)In: Industrial and Corporate Change, ISSN 0960-6491, E-ISSN 1464-3650, Vol. 12, no 1, p. 91-114Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
During the 1980s and 1990s Finland and Sweden were on the international frontier in telecommunications, pioneering the first-generation cellular system and leading in the development of the second generation. This strength in telecommunications has developed under various regulatory regimes in a complex industrial history; going back to the nineteenth century. To account for this Fenno-Swedish telecom trajectory, the article starts out with Porter's model of industrial competitiveness and theories of public procurement, and then focus the attention and analysis in two directions: (i) the historical role of advanced, research-intensive users and competitive public-private development pairs; and (ii) the emergence and significance of a composite binational clusters and their local agglomerations in the accelerated industry growth in the 1990s.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2003. Vol. 12, no 1, p. 91-114
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-22299DOI: 10.1093/icc/12.1.91ISI: 000181383600004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-0037293199OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-22299DiVA, id: diva2:340997
Note
QC 20100525
2010-08-102010-08-102022-10-25Bibliographically approved