Biotechnology and governance in Australia and Sweden: Path dependency or institutional convergence?
(2003) In Australian Journal of Political Science 38(1). p.25-43- Abstract
- The development of new generic technologies occurs within traditional structures of industry - government interaction, but also unleashes a process of 'creative destruction' generating new institutional patterns. This article, focusing on biotechnology, describes and compares policy processes and institutional arrangements in Australia and Sweden. The Swedish biotechnology sector displays a pattern of fragmentation and relatively weak state steering. Australia, by contrast, has implemented a set of comparatively coordinated regulatory and other measures to foster the growth of biotechnology. This observation contradicts the characterisation of Sweden as a 'strong state' economy, and challenges the depiction of Australia as lacking in state... (More)
- The development of new generic technologies occurs within traditional structures of industry - government interaction, but also unleashes a process of 'creative destruction' generating new institutional patterns. This article, focusing on biotechnology, describes and compares policy processes and institutional arrangements in Australia and Sweden. The Swedish biotechnology sector displays a pattern of fragmentation and relatively weak state steering. Australia, by contrast, has implemented a set of comparatively coordinated regulatory and other measures to foster the growth of biotechnology. This observation contradicts the characterisation of Sweden as a 'strong state' economy, and challenges the depiction of Australia as lacking in state steering capacity. The relative open-endedness of the search in these countries for a mode of regulation of biotechnology suggests that the role of the state in economic restructuring today is fundamentally distinct from that of earlier periods. (Less)
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- Lofgren, Hans and Benner, Mats LU
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- 2003
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- Contribution to journal
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- Australian Journal of Political Science
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- 38
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 25 - 43
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- Taylor & Francis
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- wos:000182331600002
- scopus:0038811683
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- 1036-1146
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- 10.1080/1036114032000056233
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- English
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