Innovation and the Skill Mix: Chemicals and Engineering in Britain and Germany

Geoff Mason and Karin Wagner

National Institute Economic Review, 1994, vol. 148, 61-72

Abstract: In recent years continued disparities between countries in economic performance combined with the rapid pace of technological change have led to growing interest in comparisons of ‘national systems of innovation’. The development of this concept reflects increased awareness of both the cumulative, informal nature of much innovative activity—especially the interaction between producers and prospective users of new products—and the ways in which national-institutional structures condition the decisions taken by key actors in the innovative process such as enterprises, universities, and individual engineers, scientists and other members of the labour force (Lundvall, 1988; Freeman, 1988; Westney, 1993; Soskice, 1993).

Date: 1994
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