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 …

For many sectors like health care, financial services, or renewable energy, new products
and services are generated by an ecology of business firms, nonprofit foundations, public …

When scientific and technical work goes on within a formal organization, what effect, if any,
does the organizational setting have on the production of facts and artefacts? This question …

Every culture and civilization has creation stories or myths about how the society started and
took shape. These stories help define identity and order a chaotic, complex universe …

The expansion of the bioeconomy is driven by integration strategies that come in various
forms. Natural integration is characterized by businesses combining forces and establishing …

Breakthroughs in science and technology increasingly happen outside of firms in informal
interorganizational communities of innovators. The effort of a group on a specific topic …

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

This work is a sociological history of the origins of the biotechnology industry in San Diego,
California. It focuses on the professional biographies of scientists and executives at …

The paper presents a conceptual framework which faces clusters, or localized networks, in
the life-science domains. Amongst the various lenses, it focuses on the relationship-if any …

Focussing on China's health biotech clusters the study explores the anatomy of interaction in
as well as between various clusters. While the literature has identified the existence of a …