Pyka, Andreas; Saviotti, Paolo - 2001
by acquisition and mergers or by isolated R&D. This imbalance between the rate of growth of the biotechnology knowledge … the end of the 70s and early 80s. To the extent that this was considered to be the only knowledge gap innovation networks … with the new technology. We are then proposing that a new role, that of explorers scanning parts of the knowledge space …