Regions with biotechnology-specific knowledge seem to have best chances to attract potential entrepreneurs to establish … a biotechnology-firm. Furthermore, regional oriented technology policy is supposed to stimulate the creation process of … biotechnology clusters, too. The BioRegio contest (BRC) is the most prominent example for this kind of policy support. The analysis …

, such as intellectual human capital, can predict where and when biotechnology enterprises emerge and agglomerate. Density … dependence and previous founding dependence proxy many underlying processes; the legitimation and competition interpretation is … more conjectural than empirically tenable. We argue and demonstrate for biotechnology that an alternative model based on …

, such as intellectual human capital, can predict where and when biotechnology enterprises emerge and agglomerate. Density … dependence and previous founding dependence proxy many underlying processes; the legitimation and competition interpretation is … more conjectural than empirically tenable. We argue and demonstrate for biotechnology that an alternative model based on …