The local academic science base plays a dominant role in determining where and when biotechnology is adopted by … pharmaceutical business -- biotechnology's most important application -- the performance enhancement associated with this … biotechnology, with the latter playing a somewhat larger role. De nova entry was determined similarly as if entry and organizational …

, such as intellectual human capital, can predict where and when biotechnology enterprises emerge and agglomerate. Density … more conjectural than empirically tenable. We argue and demonstrate for biotechnology that an alternative model based on … essentially uncorrelated with the panel data on biotechnology entry by year and region while the combined model has correlation …