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A Schloss Laxenburg Model of Product Cycle Dynamics

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In 1984, while working at IIASA in Schloss Laxenburg outside Vienna, the authors jointly produced two papers on product cycles (Andersson and Johansson, 1984a and 1984b). These papers use microeconomic models to show how product cycle assumptions generate location and relocation processes. Both papers also demonstrate how clusters of product cycles can be observed empirically in the form of aggregate specialisation patterns which describe a time-space hierarchy. In this paper we reformulate these results into a more coherent framework and emphasise new directions for this type of model formulations.

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  1. Jönköping International Business School, Sweden

    Börje Johansson

  2. Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden

    Åke E. Andersson

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  1. Economics Department, Brown University, 64 Waterman Street, 02912, Providence, RI, USA

    Martin J. Beckmann

  2. Economics Department, Jönköping International Business School, P.O. Box 1026, S-55111, Jönköping, Sweden

    Börje Johannsson

  3. Department of Infrastructure and Planning, Royal Institute of Technology, S-10044, Stockholm, Sweden

    Folke Snickars

  4. Thord Connector, Lützengatan 9, S-11520, Stockholm, Sweden

    Roland Thord

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Johansson, B., Andersson, Å.E. (1998). A Schloss Laxenburg Model of Product Cycle Dynamics. In: Beckmann, M.J., Johannsson, B., Snickars, F., Thord, R. (eds) Knowledge and Networks in a Dynamic Economy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60318-1_11

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