THE CONVERGENCE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY PARADIGMS AND THE STRATEGIES OF LEADING WORLD GROUPS

This article aims to analyze how major companies have diversified their technology in response to the emergence of new technology paradigms. Starting with a classification of a patent database, this work questions, first, if these processes give rise to convergence between the knowledge bases and the emergence of a new industrial biotechnology paradigm. Second, this work discusses data from major groups on the international scale to determine if this diversification has produced a coherent knowledge base or if it is simply conglomerate growth, and whether there are still entry opportunities for companies in developing nations.