Technological change is central in explaining industrial leadership, but the relationships and interactions between scientific research, industrial innovation, and competitiveness are neither clear nor straightforward. Public research funding and business strategy dictate to a significant extent...

Focusing on the chemical industry, this paper examines the co-evolution of systems of component technologies within industry structures, and vice versa, in an open-ended process of interaction, continuous change and adaptation. The empirical evidence is based on patenting activity 1890-1990,...

The drug taxol has been hailed by many in the cancer community as a major breakthrough in the treatment of cancer. It has already been approved in use against ovarian and advanced breast cancer in many countries world-wide. Taxol has also promoted profound debates in the policy arena not, as one...