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The biotechnology industry in Oxfordshire: enterprise and innovation

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This paper presents a case study of one of the most intensive biotechnology clusters in Europe, Oxfordshire. Its purpose is to examine patterns of development, focusing on the interplay between the characteristics of the industry and its firms, the UK's national innovation system and the locality. It reviews what can be learnt about how this concentration of activity functions by using data from a recently completed study of the Oxfordshire biotech industry. It focuses on the rise of entrepreneurial activity, the relationship between growth and the science base, labour markets, milieu effects and formal institutional and physical infrastructural conditions. It concludes that while Oxfordshire has many favourable features its firms are faced with a number of operating problems including the high costs of housing and business property and shortages of skilled people and risk capital. In approach taken, the paper shifts the balance between the conceptualisations of localities as systems of localised networks to localities as systems of material resources.

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  • Helen Lawton Smith, 2003. "The biotechnology industry in Oxfordshire: enterprise and innovation," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(7), pages 985-1001, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:12:y:2003:i:7:p:985-1001
    DOI: 10.1080/0965431042000267858
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    1. Cordes, Alexander & Gehrke, Birgit & Römisch, Roman & Rammer, Christian & Schliessler, Paula & Wassmann, Pia, 2015. "Identifying revealed comparative advantages in an EU regional context," ZEW Expertises, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, number 145962.
    2. Helen Lawton Smith & Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen & Laurel Edmunds, 2016. "Innovation capacity in the healthcare sector and historical anchors: examples from the UK, Switzerland and the US," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 41(6), pages 1420-1439, December.
    3. Marina van Geenhuizen & Peter Nijkamp, 2011. "Knowledge Virtualization and Local Connectedness among Smart High-tech Companies," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 11-119/3, Tinbergen Institute.
    4. Helen Lawton Smith & Saverio Romeo, 2016. "Regional Environments and Sector Developments: the Biotech Sector in Oxfordshire," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 7(4), pages 905-919, December.

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