This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at the firmlevel to a very large extent. Using a dynamic...

In "Production, Work, Territory," Allen J. Scott and Michael Storper attempt to define the new agenda for research on the changing geography of industrial capitalism. Dissatisfied with the limited horizons of industrial geography, they gather in one volume essays by seventeen researchers who...