Competitive low-tech manufacturing and challenges for regional policy in the European context – lessons from the Danish experience.
Hansen, Teis LU
and Winther, Lars
(2014)
In Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
7(3).
p.449-470
- Abstract
- Today, low-tech firms in high-wage countries are focusing on increasing investments in highly skilled labour and advanced machinery, incremental innovation and high value-added niches. Danish policy, however, gives little attention to the new specificities of low-tech manufacturing, and the understanding of innovation in national and regional strategies is dominated by a science-based perspective. There is a strong policy focus on human capital and research and development in manufacturing. Human capital is vital to manufacturing in general, but the latter is of less importance for low-tech firms. Conversely, user–producer interactions and machinery investments, which are critical to low-tech competitiveness, are disregarded by policies.
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- Hansen, Teis
LU
and Winther, Lars
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- 2014
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- Contribution to journal
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- subject
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- regional development, regional policy, low-tech manufacturing, innovation, competitiveness
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- Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
- volume
- 7
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 449 - 470
- publisher
- Oxford University Press
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- wos:000344648900008
- scopus:84937565883
- ISSN
- 1752-1378
- DOI
- 10.1093/cjres/rsu015
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- English
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