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This chapter presents the results of a research project undertaken in collaboration with the Division of Statistics of the German Patent Office (Dr. Siegfried Greif and Dieter Schmiedl). The purpose was to investigate regional innovation potential in Germany with the help of patent indicators. Our project therefore had two main aims: firstly, to identify where successful research and invention activities in technical and scientific fields are taking place in Germany. Secondly, to clarify the causes which can be held responsible for the spatial distribution of invention activities. As the geographical distribution of invention performance is already well documented in the “German Atlas of Patents” (Greif 1998), we have focused on the analysis of the spatial pattern of invention activities.
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Giese, E. (2002). The Spatial Pattern of Invention Activities in West Germany 1992–1994. In: Schätzl, L., Diez, J.R. (eds) Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe. Contributions to Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57467-2_2
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