Innovation in local economies
Subtitle: Germany in comparative context
By: Colin Crouch and Helmut Voelzkow.
Contributors: Crouch, Colin, 1944-; Voelzkow, Helmut.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780199551170
Subjects: Industries -- Germany -- Case studies; Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Germany -- Case studies; Germany -- Economic conditions -- 1990- -- Regional disparities
Genres: Case studies.
Description: xi, 211 p. : 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: local and sectoral diversity within national economic systems / Colin Crouch and Helmut Voelzkow; title: Rule-breaking and freedom of rules in national production models : how German capitalism departs from the 'Rhenish equilibrium' / Ulrich Glassmann; title: Three cases of changing capitalism : Sweden, Hungary, and the United Kingdom / Colin Crouch ... [et al.]; title: The furniture industry in Ostwestfalen-Lippe and southern Sweden / Pernilla S. Rafiqui ... [et al.]; title: Testing the West German model in East Germany and Hungary : the motor industry in Zwickau and Gyor / Maarten Keune ... [et al.]; title: The development of Munich and Cambridge therapeutic biotech firms : a case study of institutional adaptation / Simcha Jong; title: Creative local development in Cologne and London film and tv production / Sabine Elbing, Ulrich Glassmann, and Colin Crouch; title: Conclusions : local and global sources of capitalist diversity / Colin Crouch, Martin Schroder, and Helmut Voelzkow.