The Pharmacia story of entrepreneurship and as a creative technical universityFootnote1

1. This paper draws directly on a larger study of the Lake Mälar regional economy in Eliasson (Citation2005a) and Eliasson, G. and Eliasson, Å. (Citation2002a,Citationb). It was originally prepared for the ISA session at the conference Förändringens Vindar och Vanans Makt, Piteå, Sweden, 18–20 August 2004. Revised versions have been presented at seminars at ERMES, Paris Universite II – Pantheon-Assass, on 17 January 2006, at the Ratio Institute, Stockholm, on 29 March 2006 and at MERIT, Maastricht on 2 May 2006.

– an experiment in innovation, organizational break up and industrial renaissance

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