Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Patrucco, Pier Paolo
Author-Email: pierpaolo.patrucco@unito.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: The Evolution of Knowledge Organization: The Emergence of Innovation Platform in the Turin Car System.
Abstract:The paper aims at explaining the changes in how economic actors and their organizations acquire and 
coordinate innovative and productive capabilities. Through the illustrative evidence of organizational change
occurred in the automobile industry in the area of Turin over the last 50 years, the paper describes how transformations 
in the structure of interactions between firms are steered by the modification in the pattern of specialization and 
differentiation in the capabilities and technological skills of economic actors. 
The automobile system in Turin is characterized by the emergence of a distributed innovation platform, which is 
seen as a major innovation in the organization of innovation and technological knowledge in the system.  
Length: 49 pages
Creation-Date: 2013-07
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati_wp/wp2013dip_l_b/wp_15_2013_leibrick.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:labeco:201315