Today, knowledge economies are a key asset for global competitiveness. Biotechnology is a
knowledge-driven sector because it consists of knowledge working on knowledge to create …

We draw on diverse data sets to compare the institutional organization of upstream life
science research across the United States and Europe. Understanding cross-national …

One way to understand the notion of Morphogenesis Unbound is to focus on the meso level
of society, ie to look at society as an 'organizational society'and to think about the co …

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

Although bioscience industrial clusters have been widely researched in the last decade, the
role of knowledge creation, management, and transfer as driving forces for industrial cluster …

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 …

The accelerating pace of technological advancements necessitates specialised expertise
and cutting‐edge instruments to maintain competitive research in life sciences. Core …

Regional or local clusters of enterprises of a certain industry or value chain are increasingly
regarded as protagonists of economic growth. Developments like the emergence of Silicon …

In the US, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, academic research centers that were tightly
linked to the semiconductor industry began to proliferate–at exactly the same time as the first …

This paper is a part of a research program analyzing how institutional and organizational
factors facilitate or hamper the making of major discoveries in basic biomedical science. 2 …