We analyze the emergence and spatial evolution of the German laser systems industry. Regional knowledge in the related … downstream systems market. Entry into the materials processing submarket appears to be unrelated to academic knowledge in the … region, but the presence of laser source producers and the regional stock of laser knowledge are still highly predictive in …

This paper examines the diversity of linkages of firms to science and their effect on innovation performance for a … with a science linkage -which can be of various sorts- have superior innovation performance, in particular with respect to …