The emergence of bio-clusters in Egypt and South Africa
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5912/jcb477Keywords:
Biotechnology industry, Clusters, Developing Countries, Egypt, South AfricaAbstract
There is a wide body of literature on biotechnology clusters. However, most of the works has been focused on the description of the clusters as well as the development of biotechnology clusters in USA, Europe and other developed countries. Much less attention has been paid to the development of biotechnology clusters in developing countries. The aim of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the emergence of biotechnology clusters in Egypt and South Africa.
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