relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/668/
title: Technological Regimes and the Growth of Networks: An Empirical Analysis
creator: Pammolli, Fabio
creator: Riccaboni, Massimo
subject: HB Economic Theory
subject: T Technology (General)
description: This paper shows how specific technological  and relational regimes have shaped the growth of the network  of R&D collaborative agreements in pharmaceuticals in the  1990s. Our analysis reveals the existence of a complex set of  regimes of firm growth within the network, providing additional  evidence supporting prediction that both growth and  innovative activities of large and small firms respond, even  within a given industry, to considerably different technological  and economic factors. Moreover, the paper shows, in the  context of a specific industry and by means of a series of  preliminary and explorative empirical analyses, that information  on the topological properties of a given industrial settings  and on roles/positions of organizations within it can be used  to disentangle some fundamental generative processes underlying  observed processes of growth. This result contributes  to the “old” stochastic approach to firm growth, in the  direction of building parsimonious and, at the same time, more  realistic, representations of processes of industrial growth.
date: 2002
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Pammolli, Fabio and Riccaboni, Massimo  Technological Regimes and the Growth of Networks: An Empirical Analysis.  Small Business Economics, 19 (3).  pp. 205-215.  ISSN 0921898X      (2002)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1019682612073
relation: 10.1023/A:1019682612073