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- Title
Co-development and composite clusters--the secular strenth of Nordic telecommunications.
- Authors
Berggren, Christian; Laestadius, Staffan
- Abstract
During the 1980s and 1990s Finland and Sweden were on the international frontier in telecommunications, pioneering the first-generation cellular system and leading in the development of the second generation. This strength in telecommunications has developed under various regulatory regimes in a complex industrial history, going back to the nineteenth century. To account for this Fenno-Swedish telecom trajectory, the article starts out with Porter's model of industrial competitiveness and theories of public procurement, and then focus the attention and analysis in two directions: (i) the historical role of advanced, research-intensive users and competitive public-private development pairs; and (ii) the emergence and significance of composite binational clusters and their local agglomerations in the accelerated industry growth in the 1990s.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; FINLAND; TELECOMMUNICATION; INTERNATIONAL trade; REGULATED industries; COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL management; CELL phone equipment industry
- Publication
Industrial & Corporate Change, 2003, Vol 12, Issue 1, p91
- ISSN
0960-6491
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/icc/12.1.91