During the last years more and more discussions came up about the contribution of technology-oriented and technology …-intensive industries for the economic development and employment. One reason for these contradictory evaluations of technology …-intensive industries can be attributed to different conceptual definitions of technology which are briefly discussed. The foundation and …

During the last years more and more discussions came up about the contribution of technology-oriented and technology … various technology-oriented sectors in West-Germany from 1983 until 1993 on the basis of a firm specific data set from the … various technology-intensive industries show high growth rates during the early eighties and after reunification in 1989. On …

Forstschritt, Innovation und von Unwissen eingehen. [...] …

, economic, and academic actors contribute to the creation and establishing of new fields of innovation. To this end, we will … compare two prominent cases in current innovation policy: biotechnology (specifically, genetic engineering) and the electric … as well. We are going to argue that the way in which participants imagine the uses and users of a certain technology has …