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作者

Stine Haakonsson;Julia Kirch Kirkegaard;Rasmus Lema

来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.28,Issue.11

语言

英文

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作者单位

a Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark;b Graduate School of Business, Scancor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;c Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

摘要

Innovation is increasingly decentralized, traded and transferred internationally. Specialized suppliers of knowledge-intensive business services have emerged, enhancing the international transfer of knowledge and technology. This has important implications for the global geography of technological and innovative capabilities. This paper focuses on the role of European KIBS providers for the catch-up process in the Chinese wind turbine industry. Drawing on in-depth studies of three central technology domains in wind turbine research and development, it shows how the recent catch-up in the Chinese wind turbine industry was closely connected to organizational changes taking place in the incumbent wind turbine lead markets in Europe. The paper suggests that access to knowledge through KIBS can unlock rapid but bounded latecomer development in emerging markets.