What are the specific characteristics of innovation in pharmaceutical biotechnology? How do biopharmaceutical innovation systems in OECD countries perform and which policies are suitable to foster performance?. This publication examines the innovation system in pharmaceutical biotechnology in...

This volume examines developments in the food economy, focusing on the economic impacts of increasing retailer concentration on consumers, processors and farmers. The document estimates retail market power and assesses price transmission in the beef, pork and poultry supply chains of Canada, the...

The growth potential of countries increasingly depends on the effectiveness of their innovation systems in creating, diffusing and using knowledge. A large share of market-based or informal knowledge flows occur within industrial clusters that can be seen as reduced-form innovation systems....

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and tables -- Chapter 1. Opening the black box -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why study governments in the EU? -- 3. About definitions and scope -- 4. Organisation of the book -- Chapter 2. Governments in European integration theory -- 1. A...