The motivation (and personal ex-ante assumption) for this chapter comes from our combined
20 years' experience of research, consulting, operational positions, and ownership of more …

By taking conventionalist view of the evolution of biotechnology, we suggest that the process
by which entrepreneurs determined what made biotechnology valuable and figured out how …

This chapter presents a general overview of biotechnology as a science and as an industry
of immense economic value. The many industrial applications of biotechnology have been …

Government policies across the world seek to create clusters of companies and other
stakeholders that specialise in a particular technology to build an 'industrial ecosystem'. This …

Over the past three decades, the biotechnology industry has emerged as a vital and
dynamic source of new technologies for the pharmaceutical and agricultural chemical …

This Editorial introduces the Special Issue on 'Biotechnology Clusters and Beyond'. Drawing
on the interventions of five commissioned articles from Canada, Germany, Israel, the UK and …

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

All would agree that with more than 3,000 new firms formed in Europe, Japan and the United
States focused on biotechnology, and with elegant strides forward in our understanding of …