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” controlling the system, as well as a cohesive or ‘small-world’ structure. This small-world structure, which allows rapid diffusion … of innovation along very short paths, also constrains firms continuously and can lead to a fast reversal of their …
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with the pharmaceutical companies and industries in other parts of the world, particularly the US. Over the last two … European countries. As a whole, Europe is lagging behind in its ability to generate, organise, and sustain innovation processes … position of the US as a locus of innovation in pharmaceuticals has increased over the past decade compared to Europe. All in …
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An explosion of knowledge and a growing array of tools and technologies have transformed modern drug R&D, while its cost has risen by a sizable amount. At the same time, the unchecked increase in health care and prescription drug spending has spawned cost containment policies that are...
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This paper explored an unusually comprehensive dataset of more than 2,000 drug R&D projects all over the world during … the 1990s. This enabled us to characterise several features of the innovation process in pharmaceuticals, particularly the …
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This paper reviews the status of Agricultural Biotechnology in Sub-Saharan Africa. It addresses the potential economic benefits to Sub-Saharan Africa and the effect biotechnology policies may have on growth, production and poverty reduction. The extent to which agricultural biotechnology will...
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innovation strategies and innovation activities to pursue three interconnected aims: a) better understand firm behaviour by … analysing qualitative features of innovation processes (motivations, dynamics, linkages among driving factors and collaboration …. The concluding section highlights implications for innovation surveys’ methods, further quantitative analyses, as well as …
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performance, too much proximity may even harm innovation (Boschma and Frenken, 2009; Broekel and Boschma, 2011). …
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This paper investigates the determinants of co-inventor tie formation using micro-data on genomic patents from 1990 to 2006 in France. In a single analysis, we consider the relational and proximity perspectives that are usually treated separately. In order to do so, we analyse various forms of...
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We draw on diverse data sets to compare the institutional organization of upstream life science research across the United States and Europe. Understanding cross-national differences in the organization of innovative labor in the life sciences requires attention to the structure and evolution of...
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In the present paper, it is attempted to empirically verify the impact of economic liberalization on the R&D behaviour of Indian pharmaceutical firms controlling for the effects of several firm specific characteristics including firm size. The results from the Tobit analysis for a sample of...
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