Hybrid Innovation. The Italian Machine Tool Industry Case

Authors

  • Paolo Rizzi
  • Fabio Campanini
  • Serena Costa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4468/2012.1.04rizzi.campanini.costa

Keywords:

Innovation, Global Markets, Machine Tool Industry, Hybrid Innovation

Abstract

The machine tool industry has a leading role in the Italian manufacturing system, and it is between the few industrial branches in which Italy keeps an international primary level role, being the 4th world producer and the 3rd world exporter. The branch innovation process has a threefold hybrid characterisation: it is an industry that compete at a global level, so oriented towards open innovation and imitation, but, at the same time, it tries to defend its own products. Meanwhile, it strives for product innovation, but also for production systems innovation in order to achieve a greater flexibility and reconfigurability for machine tools.

Author Biographies

Paolo Rizzi

Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Fabio Campanini

Research Fellow in Political Economy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, MUSP Machine Tools and Production Systems Laboratory

Serena Costa

Research Fellow in Political Economy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, MUSP Machine Tools and Production Systems Laboratory

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Published

01-06-2012

How to Cite

Rizzi, P., Campanini, F., & Costa, S. (2012). Hybrid Innovation. The Italian Machine Tool Industry Case. Symphonya. Emerging Issues in Management, (1), 45–56. https://doi.org/10.4468/2012.1.04rizzi.campanini.costa