Knowledge Bases and Spatial Patterns of Collaboration: Comparing the Pharma and Agro-Food Bioregions Scania and Saskatoon

Lars Coenen (), Jerker Moodysson, Camille Ryan (), Bjørn Asheim and Peter Phillips ()
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Camille Ryan: Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Postal: Saskatoon, Canada,
Peter Phillips: Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Postal: Saskatoon, Canada

No 2005/12, Papers in Innovation Studies from Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to compare the spatial patterns of innovation and knowledge linkages of a biopharmaceutical and an agro-food biotech cluster. Dissimilarities can be expected based on substantial differences in terms of historical technological regimes and sectoral innovation system dynamics between the agro-food and pharmaceutical industries in general and particularly the distinctive analytic (science- based) knowledge base of biopharmaceuticals in contrast with the more synthetic (engineering-based) knowledge base of agro-food biotechnology. Empirically the study compares co-publications and co-patents of main actors for two typical cases: a in Scania, Sweden and an agro-food biotech clusterbiopharmaceutical cluster in Saskatoon, Canada.

Keywords: Innovation systems; agro-food biotech cluster; agro-food biotech cluster (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2005-12-01
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