eprintid: 1062
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datestamp: 2012-01-18 11:28:17
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type: article
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creators_name: McKelvey, Maureen
creators_name: Alm, Håkan
creators_name: Riccaboni, Massimo
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creators_id: massimo.riccaboni@imtlucca.it
title: Does co-location matter for formal knowledge collaboration in the Swedish biotechnology–pharmaceutical sector?
ispublished: pub
subjects: HD
subjects: RS
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
keywords: Biotechnology; Pharmaceuticals; Innovation systems; Sweden; Collaboration
abstract: This article addresses the validity of assumptions about the importance of co-locality for innovation, by analyzing whether or not co-location matters for formal knowledge collaboration in the Swedish biotechnology–pharmaceutical sector, or biotech–pharma sector. The population of Swedish biotech–pharma firms has been defined, based on the three criteria of geographical location, their engagement in active knowledge development, and their specialized knowledge/product focus. The firms’ patterns of regional, national and international collaboration with other firms and with universities is analyzed, as well as the differing collaborative patterns of small versus large firm. In addressing the theoretical questions about the relative importance of co-location for innovation, the article also provides an empirical overview of the Swedish biotech–pharma sector, especially trends over time. This paper thus contributes to the literature by expanding our empirical knowledge about one European biotech–pharma sectoral system, e.g. Sweden, as well as addressing the theoretical question about the relative importance of co-location for formal knowledge collaboration.
date: 2003
date_type: published
publication: Research Policy
volume: 32
number: 3
publisher: Elsevier
pagerange: 483-501
id_number: 10.1016/S0048-7333(02)00020-3
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0048-7333
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0048-7333(02)00020-3
citation:   McKelvey, Maureen and Alm, Håkan and Riccaboni, Massimo  Does co-location matter for formal knowledge collaboration in the Swedish biotechnology–pharmaceutical sector?  Research Policy, 32 (3).  pp. 483-501.  ISSN 0048-7333      (2003)