This volume analyzes the dynamics and interactive processes among the players
(individuals, institutions, and organizations/firms) that have constituted and legitimized the …

We use a historical case study of the Institut Pasteur to articulate the concept of the
transformational organization in science, an organization with the capacity to make a large …

The spatial organization of science is undergoing a fundamental transformation. New
patterns of institutional participation, division of labor, and star scientist centrality are …

The first book to analyze how new technologies are emerging against a background of
continuing globalization of research and development activities. This unique book explores …

At a time when scientific and technical innovation now requires a multitude of
heterogeneous inputs and expertise from the public and private sectors alike, cooperative …

During recent decades we have witnessed a transformation in science that has stimulated
new organisational forms of knowledge production; the boundaries between science and …

Since the mid 1970s, economic growth at the macro level has been much slower and the
unemployment rate much higher in Europe than in the United States and Japan. But …

The thesis focuses on the high technology electronics industry and why and how electronics
manufacturing firms emerged, developed and evolved endogenously into dense industry …

Three themes inform this analysis of a large university laboratory:(1) The scientific enterprise
embodies certain distinctive values, values which inform--if with some ambiguity--the norms …

In an era in which technological development increasingly requires the combined efforts of
multiple scientific and engineering disciplines, interdisciplinary collaboration is essential …