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creators_name: Pammolli, Fabio
creators_name: Orsenigo, Luigi
creators_name: Riccaboni, Massimo
creators_id: f.pammolli@imtlucca.it
creators_id: 
creators_id: massimo.riccaboni@imtlucca.it
title: Technological change and network dynamics: Lessons from the pharmaceutical industry
ispublished: pub
subjects: HD
subjects: HF
subjects: T1
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
keywords: Pharmaceutical industry; Biotechnology industry; R&D; Technological change; Alliances
abstract: In this paper, we investigate how underlying relevant technological conditions induce distinguishable patterns of change in industry structure and evolution. A mapping is detected between the specific nature of problem decompositions and research techniques at the micro level of knowledge bases, and patterns of structural evolution at the macro level of the industry network. The graph-theoretic techniques we introduce map major technological discontinuities on changes observed at the level of dominant organization forms. They might have applications in other domains, whenever the identification of structural breaks and homological relationships between technological and industrial spaces are important issues.
date: 2001
date_type: published
publication: Research Policy
volume: 30
number: 3
publisher: Elsevier
pagerange: 485 - 508
id_number: 10.1016/S0048-7333(00)00094-9
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0048-7333
official_url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733300000949
citation:   Pammolli, Fabio and Orsenigo, Luigi and Riccaboni, Massimo  Technological change and network dynamics: Lessons from the pharmaceutical industry.  Research Policy, 30 (3).  485 - 508.  ISSN 0048-7333      (2001)