We investigate the lead-lag relationship between growth of patent applications, growth of R&D, and growth of total sectoral employment for 270 German labour market regions over the period 1999-2005. Our unique panel dataset includes information on four two-digit industries, namely Chemistry,...

Zahlreiche Schlagworte öffentlicher und wissenschaftlicher Diskurse der Gegenwart wie auch der jüngeren Vergangenheit, so z.B. "Globalisierung", "Internationalisierung ", "Postindustrielle Gesellschaft", demonstrieren, daß das jetzige Stadium der Entwicklung kapitalistisch verfaßter...

Global competition and new technologies andproduction processes encourage a reorganization of economic activity amongbusinesses and localities. A public policy response to the consequences ofglobal competition is to create concentrations of innovation activity (regionalinnovation systems). The...