Examines the link between public science and thebiotechnology industry in the United States. As knowledge plays an increasingrole in our innovation-based economy, firms at the forefront of industry mustexploit their absorptive capacity, defined as the ability to recognize newinformation,...

Economic development and social entrepreneurship often conceive of poverty as a resource allocation problem in which a lack of capital prevents the poor from increasing their income through entrepreneurship. This allocative view, however, represents only one possible approach to conceptualizing...