The importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in economic growth has
made them a central element in much recent policymaking. Of particular interest have been …

Increased efforts are made in most industrialized countries to promote the commercialization
of university research, for instance, through spin-off firm formation. Many studies have …

This paper analyses a large, longitudinal database on inter-firm R&D partnerships formed in
the high-tech pharmaceutical biotechnology industry since 1975. Our research indicates an …

Outsourcing of research and development (R&D) activities has become a major
management issue for R&D and technical managers within firms. It has also been of growing …

This paper addresses the role played by academic spin-offs in the process of transformation
of scientific and technological knowledge originating from research organisations (ROs) into …

In Lives Charmed: Intimate Conversations with Extraordinary People, writer Linda Sivertsten
interviews many of the celebrities she came to know through being a professional dog …

This paper aims at understanding the historical emergence of the network organizational
form of partners in the pharmaceutical industry following the development of …

This paper investigates the funding environment facing product innovating small
manufacturing firms and both supports and contradicts a number of “stylised facts” which …

The life sciences is an industrial sector that covers the development of biological products
and the use of biological processes in the production of goods, services and energy. This …

When a substantial part of the knowledge required for the development of a new field is
generated at the university, new entrepreneurial firms can be a privileged vehicle for the …