Neue und kleine Technologieunternehmen forcieren den Wettbewerb, sichern die Produktvielfalt, schließen Marktlücken und schaffen Arbeitsplätze. Der schwierige Zugang zu Kapital, hohe FuE-Kosten und Managementdefizite hemmen ihre Entwicklung. Der Band analysiert aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln...

Das Buch zeigt, wie sich die Biotechnologie auf regionaler Ebene entwickelt, mit welchen Problemfeldern Unternehmen und Forschungseinrichtungen konfrontiert sind, wie die Akteure aus Forschung, Wirtschaft und Politik sowie dem Umfeld der Biotechnologie zusammenwirken und welche Perspektiven sich...

Innovation networks are a major source for acquiring new information and knowledge and thus for supporting innovation processes. Despite the many theoretical and empirical contributions to the explanation of networks, many questions still remain open. For example: How can networks, if they do...

Technology-based firms contribute to dynamic competition, ensure product variety, close market gaps and promote job creation. Their development is impeded by a difficult access to capital, high R&D costs and management deficits. The book analyses their chances and risks in the innovation...

In recent years, new regionally based strategy-building processes emerged at the interface between public policy and the social coordination of collective action. Foresight as a governance process to stimulate regional innovation and strengthen the regional economic system against global...

In recent years, a growing number of researchers have been attempting to gain a better understanding of the variation in the rate of spatial innovation of different industrial plants. Several of these studies have investigated the similarity and dissimilarity of spatial innovation between...

In Germany, R&D services as a subgroup of knowledge-intensive business services are considered to be increasingly crucial for the technological competitiveness of mature as well as high-tech industries. R&D services are provided by firms and other organisations, which are able to transform...