The process of growing together in East and West Germany has not occurred as quickly as many initially believed. Telecommunications is an exception. Starting with a review of economic developments in the new federal states, this paper presents the political background of the telecommunication...

Research and development activities (R&D) are becoming more and more important for the development of the telecommunications industry. To a large extent they determine the competitive position of firms and nations. Both the equipment and carriers depend on their technological competence. In the...

Patent analysis on a company level leads to many interesting insights into the technological strategy of telecommunications manufacturers. European companies are usually focused on telecommunications, whereas Japanese companies put higher emphasis on other fields such as data processing or...

This article examines three major changes which have been occuring in the telecommunications market: liberalization, leading to increased competition in services and equipment, the internationalization of the equipment market, and a rapidly changing industrial structure. The interrelationship...

The old image of the equipment industry has to be modified with respect to the role of international trade. This paper analyses the international trade position of the German equipment industry and the role of equipment imports in the German market. The German situation is compared with that of...

Since the early 1980s the world market for telecommunications equipment has been undergoing substantial change. It is claimed that the telecommunications equipment industry is evolving from the old structure in which products were mainly produced for national markets - and if possible also sold...