Coevolution in Commercial Genetic Engineering

Maureen McKelvey

Industrial and Corporate Change, 1997, vol. 6, issue 3, 503-32

Abstract: This article addresses the problem of selection criteria and mechanisms at work in the production of scientific and technological knowledge. The two dichotomies of scientific-technological knowledge and public-private returns are used to specify four ideal-type environments, which consist of institutions and incentives and which influence the creation and selection of new knowledge. The theoretical arguments about knowledge evolution over time in relation to different selection environments and about coevolution of knowledge producers and institutions are then examined in the case of commercial genetic engineering for pharmaceuticals. Copyright 1997 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1997
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