Recent interest in biofuels and bio-refineries has been building upon the technology of biomass gasification. This technology developed since the 1980s in three periods, but failed to break through. We try to explain this by studying the technological development from a quasi-evolutionary...

The emergence of latecomer firms from East Asia in high-technology sectors is one of the most striking phenomena of world economy in the past decades. However, while most literature focuses on the catch-up of Korea and Taiwan, we know relatively little about the practices in China, especially...