Networks and innovation in a modular system: lessons from the microcomputer and stereo component industries
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The modular system of production offers both demand and supply side benefits. The potential for autonomous innovation, driven by the division of labor which provides the opportunity for rapid trial and error learning, is the supply-side advantage gained from modular systems. Demand-side benefits center on the ability to finetune the product to consumer needs and therefore covers the product space more completely. Innovation in a modular system also leads to vertical and horizontal integration, as firms can best appropriate the rents of innovation by opening their technology to an outside network of competing and cooperating companies.
Publication Name: Research Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-7333
Year: 1992
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Innovating in Bulgaria - two cases in the life of a laboratory before and after 1989
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A new study compares the innovation networks in Bulgaria's administrative economy in the 1970s with the emerging market economy in the 1990s, focusing on the Central Laboratory of Optical Storage and Processing of Information.
Publication Name: Research Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-7333
Year: 2001
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Competing technologies and the diffusion of innovations: the emergence of energy-efficient lamps in the residential sector
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The way that energy efficient lamps have become popular among domestic users is examined in detail. The barriers to the adoption of this technology are explored, as are the ways in which they were overcome.
Publication Name: Research Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-7333
Year: 2000
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