Localized creativity, small high-tech entrepreneurship, related innovation platforms, social capital embedded in dynamically open territorial communities and context-specific though continuously upgrading policy platforms are all means to face new challenges and to promote increased absorptive...

Growth cultures : meaning and interpretation in the knowledge age -- The knowledge economy and growth cultures : a theoretical framework -- Bioscientific research and the emergence of knowledge domains -- The microbiology revolution and the crisis in pharmaceuticals -- Academic growth cultures :...