This paper intends to discuss the effectiveness of government policies for supporting Korean pharmaceutical companies using the comparison of R&D efficiency business efficiency scores between government policy supporting groups and non-supporting groups. First of all, the framework for...

Markets for technology typically enhance value creation though complementarities between upstream research and downstream commercialization capabilities. However, in this paper we focus on the additional benefits of external technology sourcing on the marginal productivity of internal upstream...

A substantial body of research in management and related public policy fields concludes that recent decades saw greater dynamic competition throughout technology-intensive ("TI") industries, with wide-spread, steady increase in TI industry and business performance instability as key...

We have examined all the US patents (444) issued to homegrown Indian pharma and pharma biotech firms. Most (425, 95%) patents are pharma patents not biotech (19). Also, only 11 patents have been cited ten times or more. This data provides one snapshot of the biotech industry in India today. It...

Collaborations between universities and firms are of growing interest to scholars and practitioners alike, many of whom see these relationships as key to knowledge diffusion. While the literature on university-firm collaborations has made a number of contributions, however, it has not engaged in...

Abstract: Despite the fact that one of the main goals of corporate venture capital (CVC) investments in high-tech industries is to gain a window on future technologies, the relationship between CVC investments and strategies used to acquire technologies in the markets, such as licensing, has not...

This study deals with the organization of industry-science collaboration in the case of knowledge transfer for radical innovation. Based on a contingency notion, the relation between research and development (R&D) projects’ properties and the way of collaboration is explored. By means of...

This paper reports on the findings of interviews conducted with Hungarian firms on their overall business and innovation strategies and innovation activities to pursue three interconnected aims: a) better understand firm behaviour by analysing qualitative features of innovation processes...

Russian abstract: Сборник задач по инженерной биологии содержит более 200 физических, конструкторских и биомедицинских задач, разрешение которых с помощью...

The localization of knowledge flows has been attributed to agglomerations of knowledge-intensive firms in a region, but I argue that knowledge localization is not consistent with the wider social and professional networks of the firms' employees. I predict that small, knowledge-intensive firms...