Empirical evidence on the evolution of innovation networks within high-tech industries is still scant. We investigate …

; timing of network entry ; innovation networks ; German laser industry …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a series of articles on the linksbetween innovation, the evolution of … Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by CambridgeUniversity Press in 1999. The continued rising unemployment … the former, while the continental Europeans have chosen thelatter. The purpose the thirteen articles of Innovation …

), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …