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CRIC Public Lecture

"The Resurgence of Boston's Route 128: Open Systems and Continuity of Technological Capabilities"

Professor Michael Best Director of the Centre for Industrial Competitiveness, University of Massachusetts & Senior Research Associate, Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge

ABSTRACT

'Non-Saxenian explanation of the rise, fall, and resurgence of Route 128 as a high-tech district. My story draws on the region's technological heritage in precision machining and complex product systems (jet engines as an example) but locates technology within a 'regulation' framework of competing techno-economic regimes close to the work of Perez and Freeman. The regulatory regimes are constituted by inter-related business models, production capabilities, and skill formation processes. My focus is on the transition from a regulatory regime dominated by vertically integrated enterprises that developed integral architecture technologies to one dominated by networked enterprises pursuing open-system architecture technologies. The latter also represents an advance in technology management capability and a more powerful, regional model of innovation.'

Thursday 4 May 2000 - 5.00pm

Lecture Theatre 1(B10), Manchester School of Management, UMIST, Oxford Road, Manchester

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