High-Tech Business Services and Innovation in Germany and the UK: The Case of IT Outsourcing. This study reports on these issues through investigating the case of IT outsourcing in Germany and the UK. In both countries, the rapidly growing IT outsourcing market is an important driver underpinning growth in the computer services sector. Thirteen examples of large IT outsourcing contracts were selected (6 in Germany, 7 in the UK), ranging in value from e 25 million to more than e 5,000 million. In each case, interviews were conducted with managers in the IT firm and in the client organisation. By Damian Grimshaw and Marcela Miozzo (in collaboration with Paulina Ramirez, Matthias Knuth and Thorsten Kalina)

By Anglo-German Foundation, UK.

Business Policy Resource.