Building on recent evolutionary thinking, this paper links the present innovation performance of Norwegian firms to … system is not. This underscores the dependence of industrial innovation on specialized competences and work practices that …

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 …