The ability of societies to respond to social problems may hinge crucially on the diversity of
organizational forms, and in the long run, in a dynamic environment, diversity can be …

As universities compete to advance science and secure external resources, many are
changing the fundamental structure of their research cores. In knowledge production …

--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 …

Abstract Analysis of organizational documentation, sociometric survey and observation data
from a two-year field study of an research and development (R&D) organization suggests …

This book presents the results of Cleverbio, a project funded by theEuropean Commission.
The project examined the process of growth anddevelopment of clusters in the biotech …

US academic health centers are entering the bioscience and technology industries in ways
that are different from past notions of research activity by universities. With recent and …

The stagnation in the growth of traditional mission-oriented government research centers in
Europe, together with privatization trends and the decreasing weight of government sector …

" This paper is a small part of a much larger historical and cross-national research agenda in
which the author has been engaged for more than a decade. The agenda has confronted …

Since its origin, biotechnology has developed in few centres of excellence identifiable as
biotech clusters. Even if these usually present common features in terms of organisations …

Analysis of organizational documentation, sociometric survey and observation data from a
twoyear field study of an research and development (R&D) organization suggests that a new …