Somewhat counter-intuitively, new drug development productivity has fallen at major
pharmaceutical companies during the period of swift growth in scientific know-how during …

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 …

Rapid scientific and technological progress has resulted in the blurring of traditional industry
boundaries and in the emergence of new product markets and broader organisational fields …

Why do some entrepreneurial high-technology industrial clusters grow and prosper, while
others stagnate? Even after several decades of research, we have yet to find a definitive …

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 …

A comparison of the current structures and dynamics of UK and German biotech-nology-
based industries reveals a striking convergence of industrial organisations and innovation …

Efforts to understand the structure of the emerging knowledge economy have paid particular
attention to the shifting boundary between academic and commercial (for-profit) research …

This study combines insights from economic sociology on recent structural changes in the
knowledge economy with neoinstitutionalist analyses of cultural change in organizations …

Synthesis centers, which catalyze and host working groups, are an innovative form of
scientific organization that promotes the integration of scientific diversity and its engagement …

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 …