Innovation Networks in the German Laser Industry Evolutionary Change, Strategic Positioning, and Firm Innovativeness /

• Main Author: Kudic, Muhamed (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Economic Complexity and Evolution,
• Subjects: Management.; Industrial management.; Economic geography.; Evolutionary economics.; Industrial organization.; Economic policy.; Economic sociology.; Economics.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Institutional/Evolutionary Economics.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Industrial Organization.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Economic Geography.
• Physical Description: XX, 363 p. 43 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319079356
• ISSN: 2199-3173

Technological innovation is fundamental to firm performance and economic prosperity. The aim of this book is to contribute to an in-depth understanding of collective innovation processes by analyzing publicly funded R&D cooperation and innovation networks in the German laser industry. Standing in a neo-Schumpeterian tradition, it employs interdisciplinary analytical concepts and draws upon a unique longitudinal dataset from the laser industry that covers more than two decades of observations. In brief, the book makes a valuable contribution by exploring how and why firm-specific R&D cooperation activities and network positions, large-scale network patterns, and evolutionary network change processes affect the innovative performance of laser source manufacturers in Germany.