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Author Müller, Felix C., author

Title Finance, innovation and geography : harnessing knowledge dynamics in German biotechnology / Felix C. Müller
Published London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge studies in innovation, organizations and technology
Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology.
Summary The overarching aim of Finance, Innovation and Geography: Harnessing Knowledge Dynamics in German Biotechnology is to explore linkages between geographies of finance and relational geographies of innovation. This is achieved by questioning how investment activities affect the unfolding of innovations and in turn are affected by it. This book focuses on biotechnology innovation processes from the perspective of relational economic geography. It reconstructs the unfolding in time and space of eight innovations in German biotechnology. Each one is represented in a qualitative case study. The analysis focuses on the relational work of building, transforming, ending and replacing of collaborative relationships and organizational arrangements surrounding emergent innovations including investment relations and relational work by investors. In this way, the contribution of investors to unfolding innovations is studied with sensitivity to context and situated interactions. The geography of these dynamics is conceptualized by drawing on the recent literature on relational proximity and distance as well as ideas of materiality and space. This book provides a unique perspective, and shows that innovation paths are strongly interwoven with local and temporary opportunities as well as crises, and that investment is embedded in these dynamics. This is essential reading for students and academics of both economics and innovation
Notes Based on the author's dissertation entitled: How money tames innovation. A dynamic relational geography of investment in German biotechnology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Biotechnology.
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
Biotechnology -- Economic aspects -- Germany
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Germany
Economic geography.
Biotechnology
bioengineering.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.
Economic geography.
Biotechnology -- Economic aspects.
Biotechnology.
Biotechnology industries.
Technological innovations -- Finance.
Germany.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020693925
ISBN 9781351183802
135118380X
9781351183819
1351183826
1351183818
9781351183796
1351183796
9781351183826