Regional Productivity and Technological Change in the 1980's. The Manufacturing Sector in Denmark

Abstract

Danish Journal of Geography 96: 70–80, 1996.

This paper deals with regional productivity and strategies of technological change in the manufacturing sector, especially concerning the Copenhagen Metropolitan Area. The development is explained within the framework of the French Regulationist School using the metal product industry as a case. The anatomy of spatial industrial development in Denmark is examined by examining the movements in labour, gross domestic product at factor cost, capital stock, labour and capital productivity and the capital-labour ratio is used as an indicator of technological change. The major argument is that technological change does not advance to productivity gains because of difficulties in adopting and implementing technological change into firms and society.

Keywords:

• Economic geography
• industrial development
• productivity
• technological change
• technological paradigm