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2 - Pharmaceutical innovation as a process of creative destruction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

Frank R. Lichtenberg
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York; National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Mariana Mazzucato
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
Giovanni Dosi
Affiliation:
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa
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Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution
The Case of Pharma-Biotech
, pp. 21 - 72
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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