ABBREVIATIONS
| ANT | actor-network theory |
| BIS | UK Government Department of Business, Innovation and Skills |
| BRICs | Brazil, Russia, India and China |
| CCP | Communist Party of China |
| CEO | chief executive officer |
| CMP | capitalist mode of production |
| CPERI | cultural political economy of research and innovation |
| CR | critical realism |
| EEI | evolutionary economics of innovation |
| ESK | economics of scientific knowledge |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| GCE | generalised commodity exchange |
| GM | genetically modified |
| HEFCE | Higher Education Funding Council for England |
| ICT | information and communication technology |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| IMP | intellectual monopoly privilege |
| IP(R) | intellectual property (right) |
| IPO | initial public offering (of ... |
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