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creators_name: Orsenigo, Luigi
creators_name: Pammolli, Fabio
creators_name: Riccaboni, Massimo
creators_name: Bonaccorsi, Andrea
creators_name: Turchetti, Giuseppe
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creators_id: f.pammolli@imtlucca.it
creators_id: massimo.riccaboni@imtlucca.it
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title: The evolution of knowledge and the dynamics of an industry network 
ispublished: pub
subjects: HB
subjects: HD
subjects: RS
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
abstract: The paper moves a step forward in the direction of establishing a connection between the structure and evolution of knowledge bases and the structure and evolution of organizational forms in innovative activities in a science-intensive industry. The paper has an explicit focus on the dynamics of the network of collaborative agreements in R&D in the pharma/biotech industry after the “molecular biology revolution”. Using a comprehensive dataset, built by the authors integrating several sources in the industry, the dynamics of the network over time is extensively analyzed. With regards to network structure, it is found that, while the size of the network increases over time due to net flows of entry, its topological properties remain relatively unchanged. The evolution of the network has occurred without relevant deformations in the core-periphery profile. With regards to age-dependent propensity to collaborate, the paper finds that the extent of inter-generational collaboration is much more significant than intra-generational collaboration. In addition, the propensity of firms of a given generation to enter into collaboration with firms of a different generation increases with the distance between the two, while the total number of intra-generational collaborations decreases over time and, moreover, tends to decrease for most recent generations. In the paper a unitary and coherent explanation of the evidence is developed, coming to reveal the existence of a striking isomorphism between structural properties of the dynamics of knowledge and of the evolution of network structure. 
date: 1997
date_type: published
publication: Journal of Management & Governance
volume: 1
number: 2
publisher: Springer-Verlag
pagerange: 147-175
id_number: 10.1023/A:1009991701667
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1385-3457
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009991701667
citation:   Orsenigo, Luigi and Pammolli, Fabio and Riccaboni, Massimo and Bonaccorsi, Andrea and Turchetti, Giuseppe  The evolution of knowledge and the dynamics of an industry network.  Journal of Management & Governance, 1 (2).  pp. 147-175.  ISSN 1385-3457      (1997)