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| Title: | | Institutional entrepreneurship in constructing alternative paths: A comparison of biotech hybrids  |
| Authors: | | Divito de Paauw, Lori |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Manchester Business School working paper 586 |
| Abstract: | | This paper investigates how firms adapt their innovation strategies to cope with constraints in national institutional environments. It is a comparative case study of Dutch and British dedicated biotechnology firms focusing on a particular type of strategy, the hybrid model. Patterns of skill accumulation and learning present in the Dutch hybrids are indications of how they use institutional advantages to focus on low-risk innovation and build deeper competences while also pursuing high-risk innovation strategies. The Dutch hybrid offers insight into how firms comply with the dominant logic of the biotechnology field even when their institutional frameworks encourage the pursuit of low-risk innovation strategies. |
| Subjects: | | biotechnology national business systems national innovation systems varieties of capitalism institutional entrepreneurship |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Manchester Business School Working Paper Series, The University of Manchester
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