What happens when previously autonomous firms from different countries, each with their
own identities, routines, and capabilities, come together inside a single multinational …

Innovating firms in new industries face a number of technological and market risks,
especially appropriability and competence destruction. However, the relative significance of …

Recent policies to promote biotechnology are motors of broader R&D reform in Germany
and Japan. The idiosyncrasies of biotechnology commercialization could not be readily …

The Singapore Government has identified biotechnology as one of the four pillars of the
economy for the twenty‐first century. For the last forty years, Singapore has pursued a very …

World War II left much of the industrialized world in ruins and conferred an unprecedented
technological lead on the United States. Much of technology history since then has …

Problems of action and structure underpin key issues in research on innovation processes.
The question of entrepreneurial activity is an enduring one, from the risk-taking actor debate …

Theorists in the sociology of development have extensively discussed the capacity of a
developmental state to intervene in the industrialization process of a nation. Evans argued …

Competitive advantage in the biotech industry depends on several key factors: the existence
of vibrant academic institutions (Kenney 1986), venture capital and other forms of risk …

The globalization literature has been limited cumulative. Different disciplines have different
accents, use different definitions, rely on divergent theories and focus on different units of …

Im Zentrum der Diskussionen stehen die Forschungsfelder, deren innovatives Potential sich
für soziale, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Entwicklungen als nützlich zu erweisen scheint (vgl …