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This book analyzes the industrial design industry in the United States, and examines the competitive characteristics of firms in this sector. The findings suggest that industrial design firms, although most are small in size employing fewer than 20 employees, deliver knowledge-based inputs that support the innovation initiatives of corporate clients in the manufacturing sector. These clients are concentrated in a number of important sectors, including aerospace, machinery, auto-parts, textiles, and household goods.

This insightful book explores smaller towns and cities, places in which the majority of people live, highlighting that these more ordinary places have extraordinary geographies. It focuses on the development of an alternative approach to urban studies and theory that foregrounds smaller cities and towns rather than much larger cities and conurbations. Comparative case studies from Australia, Cambodia, India, Korea, the UK and US provide a rich collection of theoretically informed investigations into smaller urban centres that are connected in complex ways to regional, national and...

This interdisciplinary volume provides a critical and multi-disciplinary review of current manufacturing processes, practices, and policies, and broadens our understanding of production and innovation in the world economy. Chapters highlight how firms and industries modify existing processes to produce for established and emerging markets through dynamic and design-driven strategies. This approach allows readers to view transformations in production systems and processes across sectors, technologies and industries. Contributors include scholars ranging from engineering to policy to economic...