The shift to knowledge-intensive production in the plastics-processing industry and its implications for infrastructure development: three case studies - New York State, England and Israel

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The plastics processing industries in New York State, the UK and Israel displayed differences following a shift to knowledge-intensive production. While all three had reorganization programs in the transition to a new manufacturing method, NY State and UK showed better results compared to their Israeli counterpart. The first two areas had better results in terms of an educated labor market, technological and marketing infrastructure, while Israel showed poor cooperation and industrial coordination.

Author: Yinnon, A. Tamar
Plastic Materials, Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing, Research, Economic aspects, Israel, Plastics, New York, Industrial organization

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Shaping the national system of inter-industry knowledge exchange vertical integration, licensing and repeated knowledge transfer in the German plastics industry

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Sharing of innovative information with customers and competitors, which caused the exceptional international competitiveness of the West German plastics industry including chemical firms, plastics fabricators and machine makers are presented. It was found that no accident of different institutions did primarily encourage knowledge exchange between firms in geographical and cultural proximity.

Author: Streb, Jochen
Plastics Products Equipment, Plastics and Rubber Industry Machinery Manufacturing, Miscellaneous Plastics Products, NEC, Innovations, Technology application

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Modularity and innovation in knowledge-intensive business services: IT outsourcing in Germany and the UK

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The useful principles of modularity that can be extracted from the outsourcing of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are presented. The study is based on an experimental examination of information technology outsourcing in the United Kingdom and Germany.

Author: Miozzo, Marcela, Grimshaw, Damian
United Kingdom, Analysis, Outsourcing

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Subjects list: United Kingdom, Plastics industry, Germany
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