The institutional foundation of innovativeness and competitiveness of two German industries: biotechnology and mechanical engineering compared

Robert Kaiser ()
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Robert Kaiser: University of Siegen

Economic Change and Restructuring, 2016, vol. 49, issue 2, No 9, 289-307

Abstract: Abstract The article analyzes the institutional foundation of the innovativeness and competitiveness of two German industrial sectors, mechanical engineering and biotechnology. It applies a systemic innovation approach to identify what changes at the national and regional levels can explain why mechanical engineering has kept a competitive advantage for many decades while we can observe a dynamic catching-up process in biotechnology. Both sectors provide good examples of the reconfigurations that take place in national innovation systems in both territorial and functional terms.

Keywords: Innovation; Competitiveness; Biotechnology; Mechanical engineering; Innovation systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s10644-015-9177-3

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