The geography of opportunity: spatial heterogeneity in founding rates and the performance of biotechnology firms

T Stuart, O Sorenson - Research policy, 2003 - Elsevier
… necessary promote firm performance. In the empirical analyses, we investigate the effects of
geographic proximity to established biotechnology firms, sources of biotechnology expertise …

Does geography matter for science-based firms? Epistemic communities and the geography of research and patenting in biotechnology

M Gittelman - Organization science, 2007 - pubsonline.informs.org
firm employees in broader knowledge-based communities. This paper analyzes biotechnology
firms … research and proposes that the geography of their collaborations should reflect the …

Local nodes in global networks: the geography of knowledge flows in biotechnology innovation

MS Gertler, YM Levitte - Industry and innovation, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
… A large body of research suggests that the geographical distribution of VC available for
biotech firms is also highly concentrated. Cortright and Mayer (Citation2002) report that since …

Company-scientist locational links: The case of biotechnology

DB Audretsch, PE Stephan - The American economic review, 1996 - JSTOR
… , in this paper we develop a trail of geographic linkages between scientists and firms in …
the relationship between the locations of a biotechnology firm and a university scientist will be …

The geography of inter-firm knowledge spillovers in bio-tech

R Boschma, PA Balland, D Kogler - The economics of knowledge …, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
… in terms of opportunities, cost and risks. Our study investigates the knowledge spillover …
of biotech firms by means of inter- organizational citation patterns based on USPTO biotech

Breakthrough innovations in the US biotechnology industry: the effects of technological space and geographic origin

A Phene, K Fladmoe‐Lindquist… - Strategic management …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… We use patent citation data from US biotechnology firms to test our hypotheses, and find
that technologically distant knowledge contributes to breakthrough innovations only if it …

The role of small firms in US biotechnology clusters

DB Audretsch - Small Business Economics, 2001 - Springer
… More specifically, they find that firms are likely to locate in geographic areas where scientists
who have published articles on gene sequencing are located. The early evolution of the …

Regional knowledge capabilities, embeddedness of firms and industry organisation: bioscience megacentres and economic geography

P Cooke - European Planning Studies, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
… , particularly those deriving from biotechnology, compared to the rapid rise in that precise
capability on the part of networks of small, dedicated biotechnology firms (DBFs). This was …

Knowledge access at distance: strategies and practices of new biotechnology firms in emerging locations

M Fontes - Regional development in the knowledge economy, 2006 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… by new biotechnology firms (NBFs), located outside major concentrations of biotechnology
… questions concerning the potential role of these firms–which are found to be extensively …

The geography of knowledge transfer and innovation in biotechnology: The cases of Scotland, Sweden and Denmark

A Rosiello - European Planning Studies, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
… World-wide, thousands of dedicated biotechnology firms (DBFs) have been created in
proximity to PROs and they employ genetic information to produce new drugs and diagnostic tools…