Biotechnology industry is at the heart of the fast-growing knowledge-based economy. One of
the distinguishing characteristics of biotech industry is clustering. A cluster, like an organism …

The life sciences have had a transformative impact on a range of innovation-driven
industries. The pharmaceutical sector, in particular, has undergone significant …

The life sciences cluster ecosystem in Washington state (WA, United States) embraces over
1,100 organizations located in 110 cities, however, 440 of them are located in Seattle, and …

The question of how embedded actors can create institutions that support cluster emergence
remains unsolved in the cluster and national innovation systems literature. The present …

Competitive advantage in the biotech industry depends on several key factors: the existence
of vibrant academic institutions (Kenney 1986), venture capital and other forms of risk …

Advancements in biotechnology are recognized as one of the most important scientific
achievements of the 20 th Century. The emergence of biotechnology profoundly impacted …

This chapter examines the forces that sparked the emergence of a leading European
biotechnology cluster-Medicon Valley. This cluster displays one characteristic feature which …

An early attempt to analyse processes emanating from combinations and integration of
knowledge together with its carriers stemmed from the observation that industrial branches …

The focus of this dissertation is an institutional study of an unusual and complex event-the
transformation of the Medical Research Council into the Canadian Institutes of Health …

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 …