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Technology district and innovation: the case of the Swiss Jura Arc

Authors :
Maillat, Denis
Lecoq, Bruno
Nemeti, Florian
Pfister, Marc
Source :
Regional Studies. June, 1995, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p251, 13 p.
Publication Year :
1995

Abstract

The experience of Switzerland's Jura Arc region demonstrates how industrial districts can become technology districts through innovation and the organization of a region into a dynamic. A territory's construction can significantly affect its people's ability to make innovative decisions and create technologies which helps destroy the old industrial productive capacity and creates a new technology-oriented productive capacity.<br />INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the economic analysis of local processes of structural change as can be observed within certain local systems of production and [...]

Details

ISSN :
00343404
Volume :
29
Issue :
3
Database :
Gale General OneFile
Journal :
Regional Studies
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsgcl.17162811