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Mechanical engineering in the age of globalisation and the New Economy

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  • Hans-Günther Vieweg
  • Carsten Dreher
  • Herbert Hofmann
  • Steffen Kinkel
  • Gunter Lay
  • Ulrich Schmoch

Abstract

This study is based on an expertise for the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in co-operation with the Fraunhofer Institute’s Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) In Karlsruhe. The study focuses on German mechanical engineering and its specific, traditional structures in light of its integration into the deepening international division of labour and the increasing diffusion of information and communication technologies in the industry and the economy as a whole. The study methodology includes an enterprise survey of the employment of I&C technologies in product design and the production control that is carried out regularly by ISI.

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  • Hans-Günther Vieweg & Carsten Dreher & Herbert Hofmann & Steffen Kinkel & Gunter Lay & Ulrich Schmoch, 2002. "Mechanical engineering in the age of globalisation and the New Economy," ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, number 9, April.
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    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • L64 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - Other Machinery; Business Equipment; Armaments
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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