Our paper builds on the importance of high-tech manufacturing and knowledge-intensive services as significant competitiveness and economic growth drivers in the European Union and offers a fresh approach of the study on the competitiveness of secondary and tertiary high-tech industries across EU...

Die Digitale Revolution führt zu tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in der Wirtschaft. Produktzyklen werden immer kürzer. Marktveränderungen vollziehen sich häufiger und schneller. Früher war dieses Phänomen auf Hightech-Sektoren beschränkt. Inzwischen sind fast alle Branchen davon betroffen....

The business performance of firms in the creative high-tech sector shows much variation. This paper examines whether the geographical location of such business firms influences the performance of these firms. The overarching analysis framework of this paper emerges from the recently developed...