This article explores the research patterns and organizational features within R&D sector in China's biotechnology industry, delineating the innovation in knowledge production and industrial development. The more recent development of China's biotechnology industry is briefly overviewed from an interdisciplinary perspective, whilst a set of salient features embodied by social actors are envisaged as have so far strongly shaped the market-based, commercially driven mode of scientific knowledge production in the R&D activities. Furthermore, this mode serves as a premise to the innovation of the interaction-network. The implications derived from this analytical work shed a new light upon policy-making both at the level of S&T governance and in the management practice in China's biotechnology industry.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Research Article
- Pages 167-176
- DOI 10.1260/1757-2223.6.3.167
- Authors
- Kai Wang, Department of History of Science and Scientific Archaeology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- Journal International Journal of Innovation Science
- Print ISSN 1757-2223
- Journal Volume Volume 6
- Journal Issue Volume 6, Number 3 / September 2014
