SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE IN BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG AND ITS ORIENTATION TOWARDS FUTURE REGIONAL-DEVELOPMENT

This article deals with technological and innovation processes, and th e economic benefits in a region with open borderlines as part of a nat ional innovation and economic system. Innovations and technologies com pete for resources in an environment characterized by economic scarcit y. Ultimately, the technology most suited to the times and the regiona l conditions triumphs. The article focuses the (present) innovative st ructures in industry in a selected region of Germany (i.e., the federa l state of Baden-Wuerttemberg) and provides new scientometric data on the (present) contribution of public institutions to technological dev elopment in the region under scrutiny. The article concludes with a sy nopsis of present structures and a new information database on future technologies, thereby pointing out the regional challenges originating from structural change.