Drawing on semi-structured interviews carried out with founders, managers, and senior scientists in start-up biotech firms, this paper illustrates that the socio-legal literature's characterization of small firms as less compliance oriented is too neat. Small firms do not necessarily have a...

We analyse the determinants of network formation in German's biotechnology sector combining elements from social network analysis (SNA) and a regression framework for count data. For the latter we adopt a regional innovation system perspective, we estimate the number of total and interregional...