The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the sources of technological opportunities. The analysis is based on a survey conducted among 358 Swiss R&D executives in 1988. The most important results can be summarized as follows: 1. Market organizations are perceived as the most important...

The production of food employs different kinds of biotechnologies, some of which are more controversial than others. The public and the agrifood sector have developed a number of responses to address their concerns about biotechnologies considered controversial. In this contribution the...

Starting with an individual firm and its quadratic production function, this paper derives all related functions marginal and average cost, supply, profit, and input-demand. Since derivatives in other functions correspond to parameters of the quadratic, the results generalize. Explicit...