Advances in the understanding of the molecular basis of diseases have expanded the
number of plausible therapeutic targets for the development of innovative agents in recent …

The analysis of innovation and the evolution of industries has witnessed major progress in
several areas. In the last years, several contributions at the empirical, appreciative …

Now in its seventh edition, Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and
Organizational Change enables graduate and undergraduate students to develop the …

The concept sectoral system of innovation and production provides a multidimensional,
integrated and dynamic view of sectors. It is proposed that a sectoral system is a set of …

A recursive analysis of network and institutional evolution is offered to account for the
decentralized structure of the commercial field of the life sciences. Four alternative logics of …

The past two decades have seen a gradual but noticeable change in the economic
organization of innovative activity. Most firms used to integrate research and development …

This paper uses an analysis of developments in aircraft engine control systems to explore
the implications of specialization in knowledge production for the organization and the …

Abstract T er W al ALJ and B oschma R. Co-evolution of firms, industries and networks in
space, Regional Studies. The cluster literature suffers from a number of shortcomings:(1) it …

This 2007 book provides a systematic and self-contained account of the fast-develo**
theory of complex social networks. Social networks are central to the understanding of most …

We draw on diverse data sets to compare the institutional organization of upstream life
science research across the United States and Europe. Understanding cross-national …