This paper investigates the processes by which scientific knowledge is created andlegitimized. It focuses on scientific developments in a branch of medicine and exploresthe pathways through which the growth of knowledge enables advances in medicalscience and in clinical practice. This work draws...

Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research andinnovation is to investigate the extent to which sector-specific developments in anemerging technology (such as increasing interdisciplinarity and complexity) affectinventive activities developed abroad. We look at...

Pecuniary externalities are crucial in shaping the strategies to value the distinctivecompetences and the economic success of innovative firms. The analysis of conditions forlocalized knowledge appropriation and exploitation makes it possible to identify idiosyncratic production factors....

In this essay I compare two different theoretical frameworks in economics for orientinganalysis of issues in technology policy. One is a neoclassical framework that sees appropriatepolicies as dealing with “market failures”. The other framework is provided by an evolutionaryand institutional...

This paper investigates empirically the strategic alignment between innovation andproduction strategies in a sample of service firms in Spain. It employs the integratedarchetypes approach to analyse a dataset of unique, manually collected, firm responses....

AbstractThe impact of universities on the economic wellbeing and innovative potential of regionshas been the object of intense scholarly and policy interest in the last years. Despite thisinterest, a clear picture is missing in relation to the roles universities are seen to play, thebenefits of...

The literature on Regional Systems of Innovation (RSI) has produced an extensivebody of research in recent years and has been used widely as a framework for thedesign and implementation of policies in a variety of regional contexts. However,certain lack of clarity remains in relation to the...

AbstractThe objective of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of networks in which new knowledgeemerges and through which it is exchanged. Our conjecture is that the structure of a networkcannot be divorced from the dynamics of the knowledge underpinning its activities. In so doing welook...

Despite the considerable attention paid to research into the adoption of technological innovations in government agencies and business firms, little attention has been paid to other types of organisations such as voluntary organisations (VOs). As a result, many things remain unknown: the...

Innovation is still an obscure concept although many efforts have been made to improve the understanding and measurement of it. The growth of service activities throughout the economy has encouraged scholars, policy makers and executives to explore the determinants and features of the innovation...