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© 1996 Oxford University Press

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Initial Advantage: the Origins of the Geographic Concentration of the Pharmaceutical Industry in the Mid-Atlantic Region

MARYANN FELDMANa and YDA SCHREUDERb

aInstitute for Policy Studies, The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
bDepartment of Geography, University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716, USA

Abstract

In this paper we offer an interpretation of the social and institutional context that promoted the development and evolution of the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. Our interest is in defining the historical circumstances that led to the geographic concentration of the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry in the Mid-Atlantic region. Our focus is both geographic and institutional as we seek to understand the forces behind geographic localization and the ways in which geographic localization may contribute to the advancement of science and to the evolution of industries. In this paper, we describe the general development of the industry in the Mid-Atlantic region of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.


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