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Case Study: Emergence of Sweden Textile Productive Ecosystem

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In order to understand this process / I need to understand the global and regional context: technology, trade, production.

  • Textiles Growth
  • Tarrifs
  • Policies
  • Places
  • Imports
  • Exports Growth
  • Adoption of a Modern Factory System
  • World Trade Structure Over The Years …
    • World Export Structure → Growth of British Textiles Exports to India.
    • ..
  • When is mechanization profitable? How much does mechanization cost? What should be the scale of production needed to make mechanization or certain investment profitable?
  • Tax Structure → How important was tarrifs in the XIX Century? Tarrifs as Fiscal Policy
  • Specialization in the Textile Sector: Does sweden specialize in niched markets?

  • …

  • Economic Geography → History → Dynamics of Regional Industrial Development → …

  • Analytical Knowledge: Principled Knowledge ??
  • Synthetic Knowledge: Combination, Reuse ??

References

  • Textile Technology
  • Textile Productive Ecosystem
  • On the Emergence and Convergence of Complex Productive Ecosystems
  • Papers
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    • Asheim, B. T., & Coenen, L. (2006). Contextualising regional innovation systems in a globalising learning economy: On knowledge bases and institutional frameworks. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 31, 163-173.
    • Asheim, B. T., & Isaksen, A. (2002). Regional innovation systems: the integration of local ‘sticky’and global ‘ubiquitous’ knowledge. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 27(1), 77-86.
    • Audretsch, D. B., & Feldman, M. P. (2004). Knowledge spillovers and the geography of innovation. In Handbook of regional and urban economics (Vol. 4, pp. 2713-2739). Elsevier.
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    • Gertler, M. S. (2003). Tacit knowledge and the economic geography of context, or the undefinable tacitness of being (there). Journal of economic geography, 3(1), 75-99.
    • Grillitsch, M., Martin, R., & Srholec, M. (2017). Knowledge base combinations and innovation performance in Swedish regions. Economic geography, 93(5), 458-479.
    • Grillitsch, M. & Trippl, M. (2014).Combining Knowledge from Different Sources, Channels and Geographical Scales, European Planning Studies, vol. 22, no. 11, pp 2305-2325
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    • Kyaga, U. (2017). Swedish Fashion 1930–1960: Rethinking the Swedish Textile and Clothing Industry. Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University 2017].
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    • Malerba, F. (2005). Sectoral Systems: How and Why Innovation Differs across Sectors. The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. pp
    • Malmberg, A., & Maskell, P. (2006). Localized learning revisited. Growth and change, 37(1), 1-18.
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    • Asheim, B. T., & Coenen, L. (2005). Knowledge bases and regional innovation systems: Comparing Nordic clusters. Research policy, 34(8), 1173-1190.
    • Neffke, F., Henning, M., & Boschma, R. (2011). How do regions diversify over time? Industry relatedness and the development of new growth paths in regions. Economic geography, 87(3), 237-265.
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  • SchÖn, Lennart. "Proto-industrialisation and factories: Textiles in Sweden in the mid-nineteenth century." Scandinavian Economic History Review 30.1 (1982): 57-71. [Protectionism Playing a Larger Role - Stablishing Early Productive Capacity - Letter Free Trade For Exports ]
  • Schön, Lennart. "British competition and domestic change: Textiles in Sweden 1820–1870." Economy and History 23.1 (1980): 61-76. [Napoleonic Wars Natural Trade Barriers —- ]
  • Skoglund, Git. "Construction and Reconstruction of the Past: The Medieval Nordic Textile Heritage of Hemp." Medieval Clothing and Textiles 16 (2020): 78-80.
  • Factors
    • Bohlin, Jan. "Tariff protection in Sweden, 1885–1914." Scandinavian Economic History Review 53.2 (2005): 7-29.
    • Schön, Lennart, and Olle Krantz. "New Swedish historical national accounts since the 16th century in constant and current prices." (2015).
    • Schön, Lennart, and Olle Krantz. "Swedish historical national accounts 1560–2010." (2012).
    • Nyberg, Klas. "Chapter The production of international fashion in state-sponsored manufactures in Sweden-Finland, 1740-1810. Part I." (2022).
    • Persarvet, Viktor. Tariffs, Trade, and Economic Growth in Sweden 1858–1913. Diss. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2019. [Important Paper To Read]
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  • Häggqvist, Henric. "Foreign trade as fiscal policy: tariff setting and customs revenue in Sweden, 1830–1913." Scandinavian Economic History Review 66.3 (2018): 298-316.
  • Andersson, David E., and Fredrik Tell. "From fighting monopolies to promoting industry: Patent laws and innovation in Sweden 1819–1914." Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte/Economic History Yearbook 60.1 (2019): 123-156.
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