During the last decades manufacturing activities experienced rapid restructuring and change. Globalisation and new information and communication technologies have radically altered the production processes, reduced the share of manufacturing in GDP, and sustained the transfer of industries in the emerging economies of Asia. The book records these developments with respect to changes in manufacturing activities of metropolitan Thessaloniki over the period 1997-2009. It focuses on restructuring trends in the sectors of food and beverage, textile and clothing, construction materials, metal products, electrical machinery, chemicals and petroleum. It also examines the rise of ICT industries and the EU policies that sustain openness and innovation in manufacturing. Main conclusions of this extensive field research are (a) that the transformation of traditional industry in knowledge-intensive is characterized by a series of hybrid conditions, between decreasing and increasing returns, manufacturing and services, traditional and new products, material production and digital management, tacit and explicit knowledge, localization and globalisation, and (b) the transition to knowledge-intensive industry would be accelerated by the creation and operation of clusters in the respective traditional branches.
Υβριδική Καινοτομία και το Μέλλον της Βιομηχανίας στη Θεσσαλονίκη
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During the last decades manufacturing activities experienced rapid restructuring and change. Globalisation and new information and communication technologies have radically altered the production processes, reduced the share of manufacturing in GDP, and sustained the transfer of industries in the emerging economies of Asia. The book records these developments with respect to changes in manufacturing activities of metropolitan Thessaloniki over the period 1997-2009. It focuses on restructuring trends in the sectors of food and beverage, textile and clothing, construction materials, metal products, electrical machinery, chemicals and petroleum. It also examines the rise of ICT industries and the EU policies that sustain openness and innovation in manufacturing. Main conclusions of this extensive field research are (a) that the transformation of traditional industry in knowledge-intensive is characterized by a series of hybrid conditions, between decreasing and increasing returns, manufacturing and services, traditional and new products, material production and digital management, tacit and explicit knowledge, localization and globalisation, and (b) the transition to knowledge-intensive industry would be accelerated by the creation and operation of clusters in the respective traditional branches.
During the last decades manufacturing activities experienced rapid restructuring and change. Globalisation and new information and communication technologies have radically altered the production processes, reduced the share of manufacturing in GDP, and sustained the transfer of industries in the emerging economies of Asia. The book records these developments with respect to changes in manufacturing activities of metropolitan Thessaloniki over the period 1997-2009. It focuses on restructuring trends in the sectors of food and beverage, textile and clothing, construction materials, metal products, electrical machinery, chemicals and petroleum. It also examines the rise of ICT industries and the EU policies that sustain openness and innovation in manufacturing. Main conclusions of this extensive field research are (a) that the transformation of traditional industry in knowledge-intensive is characterized by a series of hybrid conditions, between decreasing and increasing returns, manufacturing and services, traditional and new products, material production and digital management, tacit and explicit knowledge, localization and globalisation, and (b) the transition to knowledge-intensive industry would be accelerated by the creation and operation of clusters in the respective traditional branches.