Localised learning and industrial competitiveness
研究国际竞争从价格转向动态创新,指出企业间邻近性促进互动学习,而隐性知识的制度载体支撑知识创造,可持续竞争力需不断更新资源、结构和制度以应对模仿带来的本地能力全球化。
Changes in the international economy have gradually shifted the basis of industrial competitiveness from static price competition towards dynamic improvement, benefiting firms that are able to create knowledge faster than their competitors. The paper argues that proximity between firms plays an important role in interactive learning processes and that knowledge creation is supported by the institutional embodiment of tacit knowledge useful for particular classes of activity. Sustainable competitiveness requires the ongoing replacement of decrepit resources, the rebuilding of obsolete structures and the renewal of economically important national or regional institutions, when imitation gradually turns localised capabilities into global ubiquities.