Preface --;1. Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe: An Introduction / Ludwig Schatzl and Javier Revilla Diez --;Part A: Innovation and Regional Development --;2. The Spatial Pattern of Invention Activities in West Germany 1992-1994 / Ernst Giese --;3. R & D, Localised Knowledge Spillovers and Endogenous Regional Growth: Evidence from Germany / Eckhardt Bode --;4. Spatial Structural Change: Evidence and Prospects / Franz-Josef Bade, Annekatrin Niebuhr, Matthias Schonert --;5. Machinery and Productivity: A Comparison of East and West German Manufacturing Plants / Michael Fritsch, Jorn Mallok --;6. The Effect of Internationalisation on the Rate of Growth of High-Tech Start-Ups: Evidence for the UK and Germany / Oliver Burgel [and others] --;7. Survival, Growth, and Interfirm Collaboration of Start-Up Companies in High Technology Industries: A Case Study of Upper Bavaria / Johannes Hampe, Martin Steininger. 8. Are There Too Many Innovation Centres in Germany? / Christine Tamasy --;Part B: The Network Paradigm and Regional Development --;9. The Regional Impact of Innovation Networks / Rolf Sternberg --;10. Innovation Activities and Networks in Metropolitan Systems of Innovation: Empirical Findings from Barcelona, Vienna and Stockholm / Javier Revilla Diez --;11. Networking of Small Firms: Is the Region a Knowledge Source for Innovation? / Knut Koschatzky, Andrea Zenker --;12. R & D Co-Operation Between Public Research Institutions: Magnitude, Motives and Spatial Dimension / Michael Fritsch and Christian Schwirten --;13. Creative Milieus and Regional Networks: Local Strategies and Implementation in Case Studies in Bavaria / Jorg Maier, Frank Obermaier --;14. The Biotech Region of Munich and the Spatial Organisation of its Innovation Networks / Jurgen Ossenbrugge and Christian Zeller. 15. Organisational Innovations in Different Systems of Innovation: A Comparison of Germany and UK / Simone Strambach --;16. Environmental Management in Manufacturing Industry: A Comparison Between British and German Firms / Boris Braun and Reinhold Grotz --;Part C: Sectoral Studies --;17. Innovations and Regional Development: Human Capital and Knowledge Transfer as Driving Forces for Spatial Clustering in the Semiconductor industries of East Germany / Michael Plattner --;18. Correlation Between the Innovative Behaviour of Biotech Firms and Regional Development / Rainer Voss [and others] --;19. Locational Effects of Innovations in Information and Comunications Technology on Food Retailing in Germany / Sven Henschel --;20. Technological Change in the German Packaging Industry: Structure, Behaviour and Performance / Hans-Dieter Haas, Sven Siebert. 21. The Changing Organisation of Production in the European Horticultural Sector and the Influence of Technology / Barbara Lenz --;22. How Culture Determines Regional Economic Trajectories: The Changing Landscape of European Costume Jewellery Production / Thorsten Hulsmann, Jurgen Pohl, Norbert Rehle.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Europe -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
Innovations.
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Europe.