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Science-driven vs. market-pioneering high tech: comparative German technology sectors in the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries

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Imperial Germany can be considered the cradle of high-technology industry. This review of organizational innovations in Germany's early 'high-tech' industries, electricity and organic chemicals in the late nineteenth century, as well as in two modern German high-tech sectors, computing and biotechnology in the late twentieth century, underscores enduring cross-sectoral variations in high-tech competition. The contrast between science-driven and market-pioneering high-tech sectors is shown to be historically robust, with implications for the so-called European Paradox of high R&D levels unmatched by corresponding levels of commercial performance in European high-tech sectors. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.

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  • Mark Lehrer, 2005. "Science-driven vs. market-pioneering high tech: comparative German technology sectors in the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 14(2), pages 251-278, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:indcch:v:14:y:2005:i:2:p:251-278
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    1. Laura B. Cardinal & Scott F. Turner & Michael J. Fern & Richard M. Burton, 2011. "Organizing for Product Development Across Technological Environments: Performance Trade-offs and Priorities," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 22(4), pages 1000-1025, August.
    2. Milad Abbasiharofteh & Tom Broekel, 2021. "Still in the shadow of the wall? The case of the Berlin biotechnology cluster," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(1), pages 73-94, February.
    3. Lehrer, Mark & Asakawa, Kazuhiro & Behnam, Michael, 2011. "Home base-compensating R&D: Indicators, public policy, and ramifications for multinational firms," Journal of International Management, Elsevier, vol. 17(1), pages 42-53, March.

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