The paper explores the influence of institutional frameworks on the evolution of the German
software and biotechnology sectors. It links institutional constraints to poor performance of …

The German economy has been widely seen as failing to develop the commercial
innovation competencies necessary to compete in new technologies. Starting in the mid …

Since the early eighties, the US political economy has evolved to support commercial
innovation in biotechnology, software, and a variety of other industries relying on radical …

This paper examines the patterns of technological innovation in Germany, and compares
them with those prevalent in the US and UK economies. The paper argues that the …

This article examines a decade of federal support for biotechnology in the Federal Republic
of Germany in order to determine the impact of liberal corporatist patterns of decision …

This paper analyzes how governance structures impact the innovation capabilities of
leading German and UK firms in the pharmaceutical industry. Our main objective is to show …

The global software industry is young, large and very dynamic (Mowery, 1996). Markets for
software as a commodity independent of computer systems have been established for little …

This work provides a systematic/quantitative analysis of the development of the software
industry, the major growth industry in advanced economies. It presents the results of industry …

Germany has made a vigorous effort to pull even with the US and Japan in the quest for
mastery of high-tech industries. Until recently, however, Germany's performance in high tech …

Given what institutional scholars have described as an inhospitable institutional climate for
entrepreneurial business, why has the German biotechnology industry suddenly taken off …