New Advanced Materials : Economic Dynamics and European Strategy A Report from the FAST Programme of the Commission of the European Communities

by Patrick Cohendet, Marc J. Ledoux, Ehud Zuscovitch

This is a detailed study of the effects of developments in new materials on industrial strategies in Europe. The study shows how a new information-rich economic system is emerging, based on uncertainty and complexity management. The mechanisms of emergence and of viability of such a system involve new strategies in terms of gathering know-how, management of skills and industrial partnership. The book has five parts: Part I is concerned with a definition of materials, Part II with structural materials and their influence on the reconception of industrial processes. Part II is complemented by Part III which looks at the three main sectors using structural materials (transport, packaging, building and public works). Part IV analyzes functional materials and the way they affect basic components in the technological system (information, energy, biotechnology). Part V makes a strategic analysis for Europe (in the spheres of industrial strategies, the role of the authorities and developments in employment and skills). The economics of new materials makes it possible to reconsider industrial strategies in terms of know-how and information gathering. The authors use these innovations to analyse the emergence of an information-intensive economic system and define some of the mechanisms which play a part in its emergence

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Year of publication:	1988
Authors:	Cohendet, Patrick ; Ledoux, Marc-Jacques ; Zuscovitch, Ehud
Publisher:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Subject:	EU-Staaten \| EU countries \| Technischer Fortschritt \| Technological change \| Industriepolitik \| Industrial policy \| Arbeitsmarktpolitik \| Labour market policy \| Werkstoff \| Materials

Extent:	Online-Ressource (XXI, 455p. 44 illus) online resource
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	ForewordI: A Trial Definition of Materials: Towards a Definition of Materials to Assist the Understanding of Current Changes -- I.1: “New” Materials versus “Old” Materials: a Groundless Controversy -- I.2: From Macroscopic to Microscopic Industrial Mastery of Materials: the Characteristics of the New Materials -- I.3: Structural Materials and Functional Materials -- II: Structural Materials -- II.1: Introduction: Variety, Complexity, Integration. The Role of Structural Materials in the Transition to a New Information-rich Production System -- II.2: Intra-materials Variety: Competition and Know-how as Exemplified by Composites -- II.3: “Inter-materials” Variety and the Overchoice Phenomenon -- II.4: Transient and Permanent Variety. From Management of Uncertainty to Management of Complexity -- II.5: Reducing of Complexity through Integration -- III: Structural Materials: The Main Areas of Application -- III.1: New Materials and Transport -- III.2: New Materials and Packaging -- III.3: New Materials in Building and Public Works -- IV: Functional Materials -- IV.1: Functional Materials and Information -- IV.2: Materials and Energy -- IV.3: Biomaterials and Biotechnology -- V: Strategies - Elements in an Industrial Policy and a Policy for Employment and Skills -- V.1: Description of Two Development Scenarios for Materials -- V.2: Industrial Strategies in Materials: European Situation -- V.3: Role of the Authorities in Europe in the Field of Materials -- V.4: Materials, Employment and Skills -- Conclusion.
ISBN:	978-3-642-73809-8 ; 978-3-540-19414-9
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-3-642-73809-8 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10013522175