Technological Systems in the Bio Industries: An International Study represents a
comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and systematic effort to understand the nature and role of …

The transition to a bioeconomy is dependent on transformative changes to technologies,
organisations, and institutions, which jointly can be described as a socio-technical change …

Changes in epistemology in biosciences are generating important spatial effects. The most
notable of these is the emergence of a few 'Bioscience Megacentres' of basic and applied …

Science has long been connected to innovation and to business. As early as the late 19th
century, chemical companies, realizing the commercial potential of science, created the first …

This book looks at the types of new research organizations that drive scientific innovation
and how ground-breaking science transforms research fields and their organization. Based …

This book reports empirical material from three case studies in the pharmaceutical industry,
the biotechnology industry and the domain of academic research. New technoscientific …

Societies are increasingly using innovation as a point of reference, thereby progressively
transforming societies into innovation societies. Today, complex innovations are …

Organization studies became institutionalized as a distinct research field in North America in
the 1960s as leading universities expanded to include the new behavioural and …