Despite the widespread interest of national, regional and local governments in promoting
their own biotechnology industry, it is now well known that this sector exhibits …

This paper adopts a system-evolutionary perspective to describe the dynamics of the life
science sector and reflect on regional innovation policy. It begins with a brief outline of the …

The life sciences is an industrial sector that covers the development of biological products
and the use of biological processes in the production of goods, services and energy. This …

--Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy's epigrammatic comparison of families is not as far removed from
research on innovative, high-technology clusters as one might expect. We contend that …

The concept of “clusters” has become central to regional economic development strategies,
especially in the high-technology and biotechnology industries. Numerous studies have …

This paper draws upon a survey of the life science and biotechnology regions of Oxford,
Central Scotland and South West England to examine the innovation and embeddedness …

Regional governments around the world hope to become significant players in the world
biotechnology industry through their support for local clusters. This article explores whether …

Regional innovation systems, Jorge Niosi shows, are evolutionary complex systems in
which each group of agents reacts to the behaviour of others as well as to public policy …

This Editorial introduces the Special Issue on 'Biotechnology Clusters and Beyond'. Drawing
on the interventions of five commissioned articles from Canada, Germany, Israel, the UK and …

We examine factors influencing the relative productivity of different geographic locations.
Our analysis of the Canadian biotechnology industry during the 1990s reveals that inventive …