Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
Drug Discov Today. 2011 May;16(9-10):450-6. doi: 10.1016/j.drudis.2011.03.001. Epub 2011 Mar 21.
Clusters are groups of co-located and interconnected firms and institutions linked by commonalities in their strategies and complementarities in their activities and resources. There are several reasons for the geographical clustering of firms in the biopharmaceutical industry. This review unpacks some advantages and disadvantages of cluster participation, and proposes a new method to enable managers and researchers to identify clusters in the biopharmaceutical industry.
集群是指一组位于同一地理位置且相互关联的企业和机构,它们的战略具有共同性,活动和资源具有互补性。生物制药行业的企业在地理上集聚的原因有几个。本综述剖析了参与集群的一些优缺点,并提出了一种新方法,使管理者和研究人员能够识别生物制药行业中的集群。