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Title: | Pioneers and Challengers in the Global Plasma Protein Industry, 1915-2015 |
Author: | Fernández Pérez, Paloma, 1964- |
Keywords: | Emprenedoria Indústria química Indústries biotecnològiques Enginyeria de proteïnes Recerca industrial Entrepreneurship Chemical industry Biotechnology industries Protein engineering Industrial research |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
Publisher: | GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences |
Abstract: | Entrepreneurship in the science-based industries is often the result of collective actions undergone by entrepreneurial groups. The origins of the biotech industry provide many examples. In the plasma protein industry, which has registered a continuous growth since 1910 and an accelerated process of mergers and acquisitions in the last decades, there are three leading corporations whose history reflects collective entrepreneurship: Baxter with headquarters in the United States (start 1931), CSL Behring in Australia (start 1916) and Grifols in Spain (start in plasma business in 1940). This article provides a historical overview of the industry and how the making of collective entrepreneurship allowed a challenger like Grifols, from a late industrialized country such as Spain, to cross entry barriers in the plasma industry, buy many of the pioneering corporations, and establish a global leadership position. This article argues that the long-term trust-based personal and professional relationships established by the entrepreneurial Spanish family lab, with managers from the US and Japanese corporations, produced a collective entrepreneurial hub of connections that made possible a long-term sustained process of innovation and globalization in a highly specialized biomedical industry. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.44.2019.4.75-95 |
It is part of: | Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung, 2019, vol. 44, num. 4, p. 75-95 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/146220 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.44.2019.4.75-95 |
ISSN: | 0172-6404 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Història Econòmica, Institucions, Política i Economia Mundial) |
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