. Biotechnology has been seen as offering promises of breakthrough innovations and hence major business potential. These innovations … governments have invested significant resources into creating a strong biotechnology industry base, with special emphasis on … biotechnology in particular. Since drugs constitute the bulk of biotechnological health care applications, and likewise both drug …

examines organizational, managerial, and institutional challenges that small and medium sized Finnish biotechnology companies …

diffusion process. This thesis addresses the diffusion of nanotechnology and biotechnology in four articles, each highlighting a … specificities of nanotechnology to other science-based technologies such as biotechnology. The empirical results indicate that … biotechnology-dedicated companies with respect to the companies future growth expectations. The results indicate that there exists a …

into a biotechnology industry, where decentralized local bio-oil production instead of large plants will play a large role …

In this paper our aim is to assess the evolution of the Finnish biotechnology sector during the 2000s. Particular focus … is given to the growth expectations and realized outcomes of Finnish biotechnology companies, to the evolution of public … implications for policy makers regarding the potential evolution paths of the Finnish biotechnology business. …

this success building on their knowledge in the life science industry to create biotechnology clusters. This paper focuses … on two innovation-based clusters, the bio¬technology agglomerations in Rehovot, Israel, and Helsinki, Finland. These …

concept. Information and communications technologies (ICT), biotechnology and nanotechnology are viewed as existing or … a GPT. Nanotechnology shows signs of being potentially widely applicable, but for biotechnology the channels of …

firms, namely, scouting, monitoring, signalling and value-adding services. The study examines biotechnology industry in …