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Knowledge Creation Dynamics And Financial Governance: Crisis Of Growth In Biotech Firms

In: Challenges In The Management Of New Technologies

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  • Anne-Laure Saives

    (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada)

  • Mehran Ebrahimi

    (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada)

  • Robert H. Desmarteau

    (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada)

  • Catherine Garnier

    (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada)

Abstract

The business models of dedicated biotech enterprises currently focus on the management of inventions with the aim of entering a virtuous growth cycle based on judicious directing of R&D projects (towards the market), the choice of intellectual property to be protected and traded, as well as managing financial options. We here deepen our understanding of the technological and organizational development cycle of these firms. We base ourselves on a series of semi-structured interviews with over 110 biotechnology firms within Quebec, one of the largest bio-cluster in Canada. This exploratory field study leads us to major paradoxical observations between organizational knowledge creation within biotechnology firms and the type of financial governance that is present. It ultimately shows three different modes of development within those firms: that is, pre-entrepreneurial, entrepreneurial and managerial, each staking out the progress of biotechnology firms, and also equally marked by two transformational ruptures (teleological and creativity gaps).

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  • Anne-Laure Saives & Mehran Ebrahimi & Robert H. Desmarteau & Catherine Garnier, 2007. "Knowledge Creation Dynamics And Financial Governance: Crisis Of Growth In Biotech Firms," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Marianne Hörlesberger & Mohamed El-Nawawi & Tarek Khalil (ed.), Challenges In The Management Of New Technologies, chapter 2, pages 17-32, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789812770318_0002
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