Evolution of specialisation: public research in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries

Aldo Geuna

Research Evaluation, 2001, vol. 10, issue 1, 67-79

Abstract: This aims to contribute to the debate over the relationship between public scientific research and industrial innovation, analysing, in particular, the importance of distance in the process of knowledge transfer from public research to industrial innovation. It also examines the evolution of scientific specialisation in the chemical and pharmaceutical fields in the four largest European countries (the UK, Germany, France, and Italy), the European Union as a whole, the USA and Japan. The results show that the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors have completely different perceptions of, and make different use of, public research, and that the pharmaceutical sector relies on international, and particularly North American, research much more than does the chemical sector. The country-level analysis of specialisation patterns indicates that the USA has a much more integrated and persistent specialisation profile in medical chemistry and pharmacy & pharmacology than the other countries. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2001
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