The impacts of modularity in Innovation Systems: a literature review

Abstract

Modularity has been widely used for products and services development, due to the benefits perceived by the organizations, since it favors mainly the integration for the development within networks of collaboration. The objective of this article is to identify, based on a literature review, the impacts of the use of modularity in Innovation Systems. For this, a systematic bibliographic review was carried out to identify publications that deal with the relationship between the adoption of modular strategies and Innovation Systems. 45 articles were selected that deal with the subject, within the national, regional, sectoral and technological perspectives, thus presenting the analysis regarding the impacts at each level of the innovation systems and an agenda for future research.