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

Mark Lehrer

Industrial and Corporate Change, 2005, vol. 14, issue 2, 251-278

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2005
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:indcch:v:14:y:2005:i:2:p:251-278

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://academic.oup.com/journals

Access Statistics for this article

Industrial and Corporate Change is currently edited by Josef Chytry

More articles in Industrial and Corporate Change from Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Oxford University Press ().