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The word ‘material’ is used to indicate any matter ready to be transformed and integrated into a complex product. With a pragmatic approach, we can define the material as ‘the stuff things are made of’.
The first version of this paper was written during a visit to the Science Policy Research Unit — University of Sussex — in Spring 1988. I received valuable comments after the presentation of a first draft in a seminar at SPRU, and later from Keith Pavitt, Pippo Ranci and Nick von Tunzelmann. Grants from Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and Fondazione Luigi Einaudi enabled me to visit SPRU. The paper benefits from information collected in 1986/87 during an IRS-ENEA research project, directed by Fabrizio Onida.
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Malaman, R. (1990). Innovation in Advanced Materials. In: Dankbaar, B., Groenewegen, J., Schenk, H. (eds) Perspectives in Industrial Organization. Studies in Industrial Organization, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2073-6_9
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