The emergence of technology systems: knowledge production and distribution in the case of the Emilian plastics district
研究了技术系统如何通过本地化技术知识的生成与扩散的相互依赖动态而涌现，以艾米利亚塑料区为例，分析了产业动态、机构研发和技术关联性对知识系统生产与分布的影响。
The emergence of technology systems is the result of interdependent dynamics of the generation and diffusion of complementary bits of localised technological knowledge. Technological communication is the crucial element assessing the collective conditions under which technological knowledge is accumulated and diffused. The case study of the emerging Emilian technological system in the plastics sector shows that the synchronic and diachronic localised interactions among industrial dynamics, institutional R&D efforts and technological interrelatedness are the determinants of the systematic production, accumulation and distribution of localised technological knowledge, in turn explaining the origin and development of the technology system itself. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.