Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1456:
BioRegio, BioProfile and the Rise of the German Biotech Industry
Dirk Dohse and Tanja Staehler
Abstract: The BioRegio contest and the BioProfile contest initiated
by the German Federal Government have drawn much international attention as
prototypes of a new kind of technology policy aiming at the exploitation of
regional innovation and growth potential through clustering. There is,
however, little systematic analysis of their actual impact on the
development of commercial biotechnology in Germany. The current paper tries
to fill this gap. We find that although these contests have catalyzed the
emergence and early growth of German commercial biotech it takes more than
isolated policy action by national governments to grow a self-sustainable
biotech industry in Europe
Keywords: clustering, biotech, technology policy, regional development; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: R11,; R38,; O3; (follow links to similar papers)
32 pages, October 2008
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