PAGES

61 – 72

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10.1080/08109029308629136
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Angel Martinez Sanchez.

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HIGH TECHNOLOGY AND FLEXIBLE AUTOMATION

Angel Martinez Sanchez.

Data from Australian manufacturing industries show that high technology industries are more intensively automated that other manufacturing industries and that the technological level and product complexity of an industry are the best explanatory variables for automation intensity. The empirical evidence shows the need to modify some of the assumptions of the Utterback and Abernathy model of the innovation life cycle.

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