TY  - JOUR
IS  - 3
JF  - Small Business Economics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1019682612073
Y1  - 2002///
TI  - Technological Regimes and the Growth of Networks: An Empirical Analysis
AV  - none
SP  - 205
N2  - 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.
SN  - 0921898X
A1  - Pammolli, Fabio
A1  - Riccaboni, Massimo
EP  - 215
ID  - eprints668
VL  - 19
ER  -