Innovation in Global Industries: U.S. Firms Competing in a New World (repost)
Jeffrey T. Macher, David C. Mowery "Innovation in Global Industries: U.S. Firms Competing in a New World"
National Academies Press | 2008-05-12 | ISBN: 0309116317 | 386 pages | PDF | 19 MB
National Academies Press | 2008-05-12 | ISBN: 0309116317 | 386 pages | PDF | 19 MB
The debate over offshoring of production, transfer of technological capabilities, and potential loss of U.S. competitiveness is a long-running one. Prevailing thinking is that “the world is flat”—that is, innovative capacity is spreading uniformly; as new centers of manufacturing emerge, research and development and new product development follow.