The paper presents an in-depth investigation on a promising innovation, «kervit», in the historical context of the booming ceramic industrial district of Sassuolo-Scandiano (Emilia-Romagna region in Italy). The kervit was introduced and patented by a brilliant inventor operating within, and then leading, one of the first ceramic companies of the booming district. The innovation had strong technological advantages and good market potentialities, but in the middle of the 1960s, right in the stage of sharp growth of the ceramic district, it was unable to exploit its market success, nor was the inventor’s com-pany able to survive.The joint use of the ethnographic method and the notion of «generative relation-ships», put forward by Lane and Maxfield (1997), marks an original contribution in the analysis both of the emergence of learning processes within a local productive system and of the role of dynamic complementarities in fostering the innovation dynamics.

Complementary Innovations and Generative Relationships: An Ethnographic Study / Russo, Margherita. - In: ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 1043-8599. - STAMPA. - 9:6(2000), pp. 517-558. [10.1080/10438590000000021]

Complementary Innovations and Generative Relationships: An Ethnographic Study

RUSSO, Margherita
2000

Abstract

The paper presents an in-depth investigation on a promising innovation, «kervit», in the historical context of the booming ceramic industrial district of Sassuolo-Scandiano (Emilia-Romagna region in Italy). The kervit was introduced and patented by a brilliant inventor operating within, and then leading, one of the first ceramic companies of the booming district. The innovation had strong technological advantages and good market potentialities, but in the middle of the 1960s, right in the stage of sharp growth of the ceramic district, it was unable to exploit its market success, nor was the inventor’s com-pany able to survive.The joint use of the ethnographic method and the notion of «generative relation-ships», put forward by Lane and Maxfield (1997), marks an original contribution in the analysis both of the emergence of learning processes within a local productive system and of the role of dynamic complementarities in fostering the innovation dynamics.
2000
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6
517
558
Complementary Innovations and Generative Relationships: An Ethnographic Study / Russo, Margherita. - In: ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 1043-8599. - STAMPA. - 9:6(2000), pp. 517-558. [10.1080/10438590000000021]
Russo, Margherita
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