Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution
Subtitle: The Case of Pharma-Biotech
Contributors: Mariana Mazzucato (Editor); Giovanni Dosi (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780521858229
Subjects: Business & Management; Pharmaceutical technology; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Labor; Business & Economics / Labor; Biomedical Research; Biomedical Technology; Drug Industry
First sentence: THIS book addresses, from a variety of perspectives, the patterns of innovation through the history of the pharmaceutical industry (which we take to include nowadays both pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms) and the ways that knowledge has coevolved with the dynamics of firm growth, industry structure and the broader socio-economic environment.