Ola Jonsson
Senior lecturer
Sites and Modes of Knowledge Creation: On the Spatial Organization of Biotechnology Innovation
Author
Summary, in English
This study takes these observations as point of departure and develops a conceptual framework used to analyze the spatial organization of innovation in biotechnology. Biotechnology is a suitable case for such analysis since it represents a set of activities in the intersection of science and industry which displays both globalization and localization. By combining a system perspective with in-depth focus on concrete knowledge creation activities the study explains how and why knowledge interaction between firms and related actors varies with different activities embedded in the innovation processes. Empirical focus is put the Swedish-Danish bioregion Medicon Valley. The study is reported in five articles which can also be read separately. Two of the articles focus on the aggregate of dedicated biotechnology firms (DBFs) composing the bioregion, while the remaining three focus on a selection of DBFs and academic research groups involved in innovation projects spanning from basic science with not yet fully identified commercial applications to more applied product development in different subfields of biotechnology related industries.
Department/s
- Department of Human Geography
- CIRCLE
Publishing year
2007
Language
English
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Department of Social and Economic Geography, Lund University
Topic
- Human Geography
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Keywords
- epistemic communities
- biotechnology
- communities of practice
- geography
- proximity
- knowledge
- localization
- globalization
- innovation systems
- Innovation
- Samhällsvetenskaper
- Social sciences
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Ola Jonsson
- Björn Asheim
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-91-976521-1-7
Defence date
7 November 2007
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Geocentrum 1, Sölvegatan 10, Sal 128 (Flygeln)
Opponent
- Philip Cooke (Professor)