Thriving innovation amidst manufacturing decline: : the Detroit auto cluster and the resilience of local knowledge production

• Autores: Thomas J. Hannigan, Marcelo Cano Kollmann, Ram Mudambi
• Localización: Industrial and Corporate Change, ISSN-e 1464-3650, Vol. 24, Nº. 3, 2015, págs. 613-634
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Analyzing the comprehensive 35-year patent data set associated with the Detroit auto cluster we confirm that innovation in clusters can increase in spite of a long-term decline in manufacturing activity. The “stickiness” of local knowledge is sustained by: (i) increasing technological specialization at the local level and (ii) growing connectedness to global centers of excellence. The very forces that bring about the decline in manufacturing in a cluster sustain their position as a global center of innovative excellence