Title:	The Paradox of Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship in Low-Tech Industries
Authors:	Schwinge, Isabel
Keywords:	Evidence from Case Studies of the German Textile Industry
Issue Date:	2015
Publisher:	SpringerVS
Description:	This book attends to a highly innovative topic for social scientific innovation and entrepreneurship studies. It deals with conditions and deviation from innovation routines during the processes of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship in so-called low-tech industries. Since the 2000s, research on the low-technology sector became an important field of research not only at the Chair of Economic and Industrial Sociology at TU Dortmund University but also in the area of European innovation studies. Several internationally and nationally funded research projects significantly contributed to a new understanding of innovation and restructuring of the economic landscape in the emerging debate on knowledge societies and economy. At the beginning of this debate, the central factor of knowledge was foremost based on new technologies and innovation based on R&D, while the sector of low-tech industries only received subordinated relevance with respect to coming social and economic development. In contrast to this view, low-tech research as a whole has clearly shown that low-tech industries are by no means technologically and economically stagnant. Rather, they play a decisive role in future economic and technological development of advanced countries.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/20121
ISBN:	978-3-658-10937-0
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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