Under the pressure of increased global competition and processes of concentration, the
pharmaceutical giants are reorganizing their innovative capacities. Technology and …

FIGURE 1: Gasoline consumption and urban density in thirty-one cities of the developed
world, 1980. gasoline prices decide how a city should be? Are there no options for …

The biotechnology sector is a revolutionary industrial sector and promises significant
innovations in medicine, veterinary care, plant agriculture, food processing, and …

This paper discusses an emerging heterodoxy in the academic literature on entre-preneurial
technology finance that is based on the idea of" bootstrapping." Bootstrap finance is a third …

The paper reports the results of an original empirical field study of firms in a knowledge-
intensive technology industry, the biotechnology industry. Data on the firms are compared …

The first major wave in the conflict over modern biotechnologies took place in the United
States at the federal level. Biotechnology proponents were able to capture the federal …

Biotechnology will have a significant effect on future global industrial competitiveness and
regional economic development, and intense competition has resulted between regions and …

This paper examines the local (regional) economic-development aspects of the emerging
biotechnology industry and considers the relative importance of generationoriented policies …

Despite decades of experimentation, there is still great uncertainty about whether mature
regions are able to attract innovative industries. Some scholars argue that mature regions …

Modern animal biotechnology involves the genetic engineering of bird, fish, insect, and
mammal species. In the United States, despite heavy federal funding of research over the …