Multiple challenges plague actors that commodify nature and create markets around products made from natural organisms. Primary among these is the reputational risk that results from negative impressions and moral contestations such as animal abuse, bad labor conditions, or pollution. In this...

The overarching aim of Finance, Innovation and Geography: Harnessing Knowledge Dynamics in German Biotechnology is to explore linkages between geographies of finance and relational geographies of innovation. This is achieved by questioning how investment activities affect the unfolding of...

The aims of this article are first to scrutinize the effects of cultural divergence within knowledge networks on innovation and second to explore how these relations change during the process. Using qualitative case-study data from innovation biographies in legal services and biotechnology...

Regionale Innovationssysteme sind charakterisiert durch eine starke Einbettung von Innovationsakteuren in flexible Netzwerkstrukturen. Die Biotechnologie ist besonders angewiesen auf solche Beziehungen, da sie durch hohe Unsicherheit und hohes finanzielles Risiko gekennzeichnet ist....