Although the cottage industry of neoinstitutional research gained its momentum through a
conceptual architecture that was centred on a bifurcation of technological/material forces …

The globalisation of the world's economy and the creation of new flexible regimes of
accumulation are necessarily generating new forms of corporate organisation. Increasingly …

This paper is a study on the organizational mechanisms guiding the search and exploitation
of technological competencies. It focuses on a specific organization form, namely networks …

This article locates the beginnings of a synthetic biology network and thereby probes the
formation of a potential disciplinary community. We consider the ways that ideas of …

Using data on the human biotherapeutics industry in the United States from the period 1976
through 2002, the authors explore the organizational origins of entrepreneurs to understand …

This dissertation argues that the impetus, growth, and financial success of many North
American high-tech companies—biotechnology, computer software development and …

The modern research university, by its commitment to research and the advancement of
science and technology, continuously produces inventions, as well as the occasional …

Bio-clusters have been at the centre of regional dynamics in the last ten years. The fact that
they allow innovation and competitiveness to emerge through intense interactions between …

Despite their importance little is known about how innovation ecosystems come into
existence. We address this gap through an historical case study of Herceptin, a revolutionary …

In the wake of Bertalanffy's General System Theory, established in the middle of last century,
there was a far-reaching quest for transdisciplinary studies and unified treatment of sciences …