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Qualitative Analysis and Comparison of Firm and System Incumbents in the New ICT Global Innovation Network

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This paper presents a qualitative analysis of the changing fortunes of firms and territorial innovation systems in the emergent handheld devices segment of the global innovation network (GIN) in information and communication technology (ICT). The conceptual approach draws fairly lightly upon evolutionary complexity theory from which important concepts such as "path interdependence" "strange attractors" and system "self-organization" derive. In this version of a suite of papers on the GINs topic, particular emphasis is placed upon supply chain displacements of western chipmakers by Asian chipmakers from the first and second versions of the Apple "smartphone", forerunner of its equally successful "tablet" technology. These are the apotheosis of innovative "convergence" in which knowledge recombination produces unanticipated novelty in products and services. It is shown how Apple , like earlier transitioning ICT firms such as IBM , Microsoft and, more recently, Hewlett Packard , engaged in "modularization" largely by acquisition in order to re-position themselves in new global markets. Spatial proximities and policies are seen as crucial to many of the processes described.

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  • Philip Cooke, 2013. "Qualitative Analysis and Comparison of Firm and System Incumbents in the New ICT Global Innovation Network," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(9), pages 1323-1340, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:21:y:2013:i:9:p:1323-1340
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2012.755828
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    1. Monica Plechero & Cristina Chaminade, 2016. "Spatial distribution of innovation networks, technological competencies and degree of novelty in emerging economy firms," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(6), pages 1056-1078, June.
    2. Fabrizio Fusillo & Sandro Montresor & Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti, 2021. "The global network of embodied R&D flows," Discussion Paper series in Regional Science & Economic Geography 2021-05, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Social Sciences, revised Apr 2021.
    3. Cristina Chaminade & Claudia De Fuentes & Gouya Harirchi & Monica Plechero, 2016. "The geography and structure of global innovation networks: global scope and regional embeddedness," Chapters, in: Richard Shearmu & Christophe Carrincazeaux & David Doloreux (ed.), Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation, chapter 22, pages 370-381, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    4. Monica Plechero & Cristina Chaminade, 2016. "The role of regional sectoral specialisation on the geography of innovation networks: a comparison between firms located in regions in developed and emerging economies," International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 8(2), pages 148-171.
    5. Eunice N. Wandiga & James M. Kilika & Rosemary James, 2017. "Firm Performance in the Context of Knowledge Based Intensive Sector: A Theoretical Review," International Journal of Business and Management, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 12(8), pages 234-234, July.
    6. Egor V. Dudukalov & Natalia D. Rodionova & Yana E. Sivakova & Elena Vyugova & Irina V. Cheryomushkina & Elena G. Popkova, 2016. "Global Innovational Networks: Sense and Role in Development of Global Economy," Contemporary Economics, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw., vol. 10(4), December.

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