In the era of knowledge-based economy, learning to learn and how to learn is crucial, and learning becomes a fundamental process for local development. Knowledge can be divided into two categories as the codified and tacit knowledge. For a local economy, tacit knowledge can not be traded easily as it is local advantages in the globalized age. Geographical proximity makes face-to-face communication essential, and it is important for the interactive learning. In addition, it also needs an institutional milieu that is advantageous to the innovation activities, and then a learning region comes to a fore. In this regard, the study aims to exam a learning region on textile industry with the case study in Tainan area. Via face-to-face interviews of the textile participators, the results show that the textile firms in Tainan area are supported by sharing a common social and cultural background. Social network helps the collective learning more effectively. The innovation activities derive from firms come from firms of supply chain, R&D institutes and business associations. However the connections within the firms of the same business, university and local government are limited, which weakens the learning of tacit knowledge and the creation of the synergy. To strengthen the learning mechanism for institutional thickness and learning region is suggested to the textile cluster in Tainan.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0908105-160036 |
| Date | 08 September 2005 |
| Creators | Lai, Chun-chieh |
| Contributors | WU, LIEN-SHANG, WANG, WEN-CHENG, Chen, Kung-Hung |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0908105-160036 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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