In the ten years since Cohen and Levinthal's seminal paper on absorptive capacity significant changes have occurred in the types and forms of commercial knowledge, networking organisational forms and the direction of innovation and the technological regime. This paper uses Molina's...

The adoption of telematics is proceeding at a painfully slow pace in public administrations and health authorities. This paper tells the story of the emergence and benefits of a telematic-based system in the Scottish health service: telemedicine in Edinburgh and Lothian community maternity care....