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9 - The growth of pharmaceutical firms: a comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

By
Boyan Jovanovic
Edited by
Mariana Mazzucato  and
Giovanni Dosi
Boyan Jovanovic
Affiliation:
New York University and 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. 266 - 274
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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