H.G.M. Oosterwijk’s scientific contributions

... At its most basic, path dependence stresses the importance of past events for current and future actions and events. This fundamental insight has advanced the building of a timesensitive understanding of persistent institutional, organizational and technological phenomena and their intricate interactions (Dosi, 1982;Geels, 2004;Van Waarden and Oosterwijk, 2006;Hassink, Isaksen, and Tripple, 2019;MacKinnon et al., 2019). It also applies to broader entities such as regional clusters (Britton, 2007) and even nation states (Pierson, 2000). ...

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Industry Dynamics and Path Dependencies: Wind Energy in Europe and Asia

... Vienna's biotechnology cluster shares some features with the Austrian biotech sector: It is specialised on medical ("red") biotechnology (Baier et al. 2000, Oosterwijk et al. 2003. Like Austria it has to be regarded as a latecomer in the commercialisation of biotechnology. ...

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The Biotechnology Cluster of Vienna, Austria

... It was essential that the political will of the Bavarian government would invest a larger amount of money over a longer period of time. The city of Vienna, which tried to copy the success mode of the Munich region failed to achieve these aims (Kaiser, 2001). Another determinant of success, was that the centralized Bavarian government decided to focus in the earlier years entirely on the area around Munich. ...

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Innovation in new and old Europe: A comparison of the Lithuanian and Bavarian biotechnology sectors