Wednesday, January 18, 2012
New European Competitiveness Report has a good documentation on KIBS - claiming that the concept is statistically murky!
see http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/_getdocument.cfm?doc_id=7129
see http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/_getdocument.cfm?doc_id=7129
pp63-78. Discussion of servicisation pp 79-87.
Does not cite the original KIBS studies - nor the ECORYS one -
Study on Industrial Policy and Services – Part 1 (Within the Framework Contract of Sectoral Competitiveness Studies – ENTR/06/054) Rotterdam,ECORYS available at:
For a recent discussion of statistical classification see
I Miles, 2011, “From knowledge-intensive services toknowledge-intensive service systems” in International Journal of Services Technology and Management, Vol. 16, No. 2 pp141-159 |
Labels: Europe, KIBS, servicisation
