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The actual organization and use of information systems in American,
European and Japanese firms are investigated and compared with
theoretical conclusions. Finally, following the experimental
evolution of the information products over the past twenty years,
the results presented indicate that information and communication
firms are now starting to offer the kind of business information
systems predicted by the analysis. The transformation of business
information systems technology can be followed in the Chronicle,
which is provided on diskette and which covers the development of
modern IT and telecommunications industries. The data are arranged
to allow researchers to reconfigure the data according to their own
needs.
This study is about the macroeconomic effects of positive
externalities or industrial spillovers around advanced production.
The case explored is the "technology di- dend" around Swedish
aircraft industry, and in particular around the aircraft ma-
facturer Saab, and the major industrial project of the JAS 39
Gripen multirole combat aircraft. The project is partly an updating
of my book (in Swedish) Technology 1 Generator or a National
Presige Project from 1995, but extends the analysis in s- eral
directions. The study includes a chapter on spillovers from
advanced production in an industrially developing economy, South
Africa, that has acquired the JAS 39 Gripen for its Air Force.
There is also a chapter in which the results for Sweden are
discussed in the wider context of advanced public procurement in
Europe. The text has been organized such that the main chapters
have been written for academic readers. Two supplements include the
technical details of data collection, mathematical models, and
calculation methods. The first chapter is brief and focused on the
results. It has the character of an extended executive summary. The
second chapter summarizes the entire story; problems, results, and
methods. This project would not have been possible without the
generous support of a number of people. First of all great thanks
go to all those people with crowded calendars in Swedish industrial
firms that have set aside time to respond to my questions. Most of
them have been listed at the end of the book.
The actual organization and use of information systems in American,
European and Japanese firms are investigated and compared with
theoretical conclusions. Finally, following the experimental
evolution of the information products over the past twenty years,
the results presented indicate that information and communication
firms are now starting to offer the kind of business information
systems predicted by the analysis. The transformation of business
information systems technology can be followed in the Chronicle,
which is provided on diskette and which covers the development of
modern IT and telecommunications industries. The data are arranged
to allow researchers to reconfigure the data according to their own
needs.
This book examines the historic role of professional and demanding
military customers in industrial development. Particular emphasis
is paid to public procurement of military equipment as a catalyst
for innovation; and the civilian commercialization of military
technologies (from gunpowder and cannons to submarines, missiles
and aircraft) is documented by many case illustrations that show
how macro-level productivity advance has been generated. A
complementary volume to Advancing Public Procurement as Industrial
Policy (2010), which focused on the spillover effects of the
Swedish combat aircraft, Gripen, in this book Gunnar Eliasson
widens the perspective to cover product development across the
Swedish defense industry, with an emphasis on regional economic
development and macro-economics, inter alia through the involvement
of Saab (aircraft) and Kockums (submarines) in partnership ventures
in Australia, Norway and Brazil. The volume is organized into four
parts. Part one examines the historical transformation of the
Swedish economy over the past three centuries from agriculture and
raw materials to an advanced industrial economy. Part two presents
detailed case studies to illustrate the spillover effects of
procurement projects and military-industrial partnerships. Part
three explains the spillover phenomenon theoretically within a
dynamic micro- to macro-economic perspective. Particular emphasis
is placed on the empirical credibility of model-based economy-wide
and dynamic cost-benefit calculations. The book concludes with a
section on fostering industrial development through public
procurement. The result is a book that will appeal to economists in
the industrial economics and management fields; to technical,
marketing and purchasing executives in business; and to policy
makers in public procurement concerned with innovation and long-run
industrial development.
This study is about the macroeconomic effects of positive
externalities or industrial spillovers around advanced production.
The case explored is the "technology di- dend" around Swedish
aircraft industry, and in particular around the aircraft ma-
facturer Saab, and the major industrial project of the JAS 39
Gripen multirole combat aircraft. The project is partly an updating
of my book (in Swedish) Technology 1 Generator or a National
Presige Project from 1995, but extends the analysis in s- eral
directions. The study includes a chapter on spillovers from
advanced production in an industrially developing economy, South
Africa, that has acquired the JAS 39 Gripen for its Air Force.
There is also a chapter in which the results for Sweden are
discussed in the wider context of advanced public procurement in
Europe. The text has been organized such that the main chapters
have been written for academic readers. Two supplements include the
technical details of data collection, mathematical models, and
calculation methods. The first chapter is brief and focused on the
results. It has the character of an extended executive summary. The
second chapter summarizes the entire story; problems, results, and
methods. This project would not have been possible without the
generous support of a number of people. First of all great thanks
go to all those people with crowded calendars in Swedish industrial
firms that have set aside time to respond to my questions. Most of
them have been listed at the end of the book.
In exploring the microfoundations of economic growth, the
contributors to Microfoundations of Economic Growth focus on three
subjects that were of profound interest to the great Austrian and
Harvard economist, Joseph A. Schumpeter: innovation, technological
change, and economic growth. Here economic growth is approached
from the vantage point of individual firms and industries. Most
analysis of innovation takes place at the firm or industry level,
while discussion of economic growth takes place at an economy-wide
level. The first part of the volume examines institutions, markets,
and entrepreneurs, without which analysis of the firm makes little
or no sense. The second part focuses on the firm as innovator,
placing heavy emphasis on the role of knowledge formation. The
subjects of innovation and knowledge formation are approached from
three perspectives: theoretical; industry (case) studies; and
empirical (cross section and panel data) analysis. In the third
part of the book the action moves from the firm to the ""macro"" or
economy-wide level. The volume's unique feature is in combining a
look at institutions and the innovative behavior of firms with an
intuitively dynamic, macroeconomic analysis, all from a
Schumpeterian perspective. The contributors argue that the study of
microinstitutions, such as firms and the evolving nature of
markets, is necessary for understanding macro-oriented phenomena
such as economic growth. It is in this sense, then, that the book
is concerned with microfoundations. Sixth in a series of volumes to
spring from the biennial meeting of the International Schumpeter
Society, this collection draws together the main themes of the
sixth meeting held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1996. The society,
founded in 1986, is a group of economists who work to promote the
scientific study of the problems of economic development and
innovation along the lines suggested by Joseph Alois Schumpeter.
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