"In this book, Amalya Lumerman Oliver shows how, in many respects, the organizational structure of the industry parallels one of its most important innovations - recombination can be used to explain a number of organizational features, including new biotechnology firms, the formation of university-based spin-offs, scientific entrepreneurship, and trust and contracts in learning collaborations and networks. The result is a provocative account of how multiple theoretical perspectives can be used to understand the structure of the biotechnology industry."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-248) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Networks, collaborations, and learning and knowledge-creation; 2. The biotechnology industry through the lenses of organizational and networks scholarship ; 3. New organizational forms for knowledge-creation in biotechnology; 4. Scientific entrepreneurship; 5. Science and discoveries in the context of private and public knowledge-creation and learning; 6. The search for university-industry collaborations : linear and chaotic networking processes; 7. Trust in collaborations and the social structure of academic research; 8. Organizational learning and strategic alliances : recombination and duality of competition and collaboration; 9. Further directions for understanding interorganizational collaborations and learning.
"In this book, Amalya Lumerman Oliver shows how, in many respects, the organizational structure of the industry parallels one of its most important innovations - recombination can be used to explain a number of organizational features, including new biotechnology firms, the formation of university-based spin-offs, scientific entrepreneurship, and trust and contracts in learning collaborations and networks. The result is a provocative account of how multiple theoretical perspectives can be used to understand the structure of the biotechnology industry."--BOOK JACKET.