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0521858224 - Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution - The Case of Pharma-Biotech - Edited by Mariana Mazzucato and Giovanni Dosi
Table of Contents


Contents

List of figurespage ix
List of tablesxii
List of contributorsxiv
Acknowledgmentsxvii
1Introduction
Giovanni Dosi and Mariana Mazzucato
1
Part I Innovation and industry evolution19
2Pharmaceutical innovation as a process of creative destruction
Frank R. Lichtenberg
21
3The evolution of pharmaceutical innovation
Paul Nightingale and Surya Mahdi
73
4Firm and regional determinants in innovation models: evidence from biotechnology and traditional chemicals
Myriam Mariani
112
5Innovation and industry evolution: a comment
Louis Galambos
145
Part II Firm growth and market structure161
6Heterogeneity and firm growth in the pharmaceutical industry
Elena Cefis, Matteo Ciccarelli, and Luigi Orsenigo
163
7Growth and diversification patterns of the worldwide pharmaceutical industry
Giulio Bottazzi, Fabio Pammolli, and Angelo Secchi
208
8Entry, market structure, and innovation in a “history-friendly” model of the evolution of the pharmaceutical industry
Christian Garavaglia, Franco Malerba, and Luigi Orsenigo
234
9The growth of pharmaceutical firms: a comment
Boyan Jovanovic
266
Part III Policy implications275
10The effects of research tool patents and licensing on biomedical innovation
John P. Walsh, Ashish Arora, and Wesley M. Cohen
277
11Upstream patents and public health: the case of genetic testing for breast cancer
Fabienne Orsi, Christine Sevilla, and Benjamin Coriat
327
12Competition, regulation, and intellectual property management in genetically modified foods: evidence from survey data
Pierre Regibeau and Katharine Rockett
346
13Governance, policy, and industry strategies: pharmaceuticals and agro-biotechnology
Joyce Tait, Joanna Chataway, Catherine Lyall, and David Wield
378
14The dynamics of knowledge accumulation, regulation, and appropriability in the pharma-biotech sector: policy issues
Luigi Orsenigo, Giovanni Dosi, and Mariana Mazzucato
402
Index432

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