Economics Of Biotechnology

Author : James D. Gaisford
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781959196

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The Economics of Biotechnology by James D. Gaisford Pdf

'The book does an excellent job at addressing all three levels from an efficiency and equity point of view . . . Readers with a background in biotechnology but less knowledge in economics will find it very useful, as well as economists who are interested in the key economic issues of biotechnology . . . I agree with the publisher that the addressed audience will welcome and like the book, and I can highly recommend it.' - Justus Wesseler, European Review of Agricultural Economics 'The book is an absorbing one . . . will give insight on business of biotechnology and related issues, such as ethical issues, IPR etc and to economist and market researchers with specified interest in biotechnology. This could be also useful for international policymakers/planners and economic commentators.' - Ashok Pandey, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research The Economics of Biotechnology is a highly accessible book dealing with some of the most crucial issues to arise in this area. Special attention is paid to consumer, ethical and environmental concerns as well as questions relating to trade policy, intellectual property, who will receive the benefits, international development and the role of international institutions such as the WTO. The authors examine concerns arising from the application of biotechnology in the agri-food industrial complex, and many of the issues discussed also have implications for the medical and pharmaceutical aspects of biotechnology.

Author : Maureen D. McKelvey,Annika Rickne,Jens Laage-Hellman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845420616

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The Economic Dynamics of Modern Biotechnology by Maureen D. McKelvey,Annika Rickne,Jens Laage-Hellman Pdf

'All would agree that with more than 3, 000 new firms formed in Europe, Japan and the United States focused on biotechnology, and with elegant strides forward in our understanding of genetics, the genome, proteomics and other related fields, a true intellectual, social and industrial revolution is in the making. Maureen McKelvey et al provide fascinating data on firm formation, case studies of emerging business models and cross-regional and national comparisons. The work is a useful beginning in our understanding of an emerging phenomenon.' - James M. Utterback, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US This book offers a novel insight into the economic dynamics of modern biotechnology, using examples from Europe to reflect global trends. The authors apply theoretical insight to a fundamental enigma of the modern learning society, namely, how and why the development of knowledge and ideas interact with market processes and the formation of industries and firms.

Author : Bryan Bergeron,Paul Chan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471647577

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Biotech Industry by Bryan Bergeron,Paul Chan Pdf

"The biotech industry is a complex, rapidly evolving, and critical industry. The industry holds great commercial and societal promise, but it is also filled with hype, confusion, and risks. Bergeron and Chan do a remarkable job of providing a sweeping insightful, and probing assessment of the current state and likely evolution of this global industry. This book is essential reading for the executive who desires a thorough understanding of this business and its potential."--John P. Glasser, Vice President and Chief Information Offers, Partners Healthcare System, Inc. "Bergeron and Chan have done a marvelous job integrating many different perspectives to give the reader a coherent road map of the biotech industry for the next decade. This powerful book is anchored by numerous relevant examples that create a framework which any life sciences professional needs to understand. Of particular note is the compelling assessment of the IT industry and its impact on the life sciences as these industries converge."--Michael A. Greeley, Managing General Partner, IDG Ventures. An in-depth examination of the growth and financing of the biotechnology industry worldwide Biotech Industry: A Global, Economic, and Financing Overview provides a thorough look at the current state of the biotechnology industry, including where major research is being conducted, where it's being applied, and where money and intellectual capital are flowing. Written by a renowned business columnist and an entrepreneurial scientist in the biotech area, this unique book gives Eos and other senior-level managers an understanding of Asia's pivotal role in the worldwide success of biotechnology commercialization, as well as insight into the biotech market over the next decade.

Author : Andrew J. Hacking
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1987-07-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521346819

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Economic Aspects of Biotechnology by Andrew J. Hacking Pdf

Both macro- and microeconomic aspects of biotechnology are discussed in this book for biologists studying microbiology, biochemistry and genetics. It explains economics and accounting procedures from first principles and assumes no prior knowledge of these areas. The author works on developing new biotechnological projects. He draws extensively on his own experience and brings together the factors which determine commercial reasoning towards biotechnology in areas such as markets, project selection, costing and capital investment. His subjects include market analysis, fermentation, enzyme technology, genetic engineering and many others; they are all tied together by a common framework of industrial and technological development.

Author : Richard E. Just,Julian M. Alston,David Zilberman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780387369532

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Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology by Richard E. Just,Julian M. Alston,David Zilberman Pdf

This book presents the first thorough economic analysis of current agricultural biotechnology regulation. The contributors, most of whom are agricultural economists working either in universities or NGOs, address issues such as commercial pesticides, the costs of approving new products, liability, benefits, consumer acceptance, regulation and its impacts, transgenic crops, social welfare implications, and biosafety.

Author : B.M. Knoppers,Alan Mathios
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461553113

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Biotechnology and the Consumer by B.M. Knoppers,Alan Mathios Pdf

Biotechnology is a rapidly developing sector of the economy for coun tries throughout the world. This rapid development has led to heated debate over its risks and benefits. Advocates of biotechnology point to the potential benefits offered by products that promise to elimi nate disease, provide for more efficient diagnostic techniques, treatments and drugs, yield increased food production, and so forth. Others fear that the rapid developments of this technology have occurred without appropriate consideration having been given to the ethical ramifications, the potential health risks and long-term envi ronmental impacts, implications for income distribution, and potential for abuse. Consumers and producers share concern for the future of biotechnology: the realities and even the perceptions, informed or otherwise. This book is the outcome of a research project on Biotechnology and the Consumer sponsored by the Office of Consumer Affairs of Industry Canada. The project was designed to foster informed public policy on biotechnology and in particular, to contribute to and inform the Canadian government's development of a Canadian Biotechnology Strategy. The Office funded a group of authors to prepare a series of analytical papers on a range of consumer and informational issues related to biotechnology. This project also involved an interim workshop in which the authors presented their papers, and culmi nated in a symposium on Biotechnology and the Consumer Interest, held on September 24-25, 1997, in Ottawa, Canada.

Author : T.M. Swanson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780306476594

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The Economics of Managing Biotechnologies by T.M. Swanson Pdf

The advent of new biotechnologies implies significant changes in the world, both biologically and industrially. Biologically, these new technologies represent changes on a scale never before witnessed in the context of evolutionary systems. How these systems will respond to these changes is uncertain and potentially very significant. The first part of this volume addresses these issues in a series of chapters considering the manner in which societies might analyse and manage these systemic responses to biotechnological changes. The second part of the volume addresses the industrial issues concerning biotechnologies. One of the primary motivations for these changes is to enhance the appropriability of the value of innovation occurring within the life sciences sectors. Changing to a property rights-based system of biotechnology has implications for the nature of research and development within these sectors, and the diffusion and distribution of its benefits across the globe. Another set of chapters in this volume sets out a framework for considering these important industrial issues. The volume is the outcome of a two-year project on the economics of managing biotechnologies in agriculture. It is recommended to academics and policy makers interested in the issues concerning society's options in the management of this process of technological change.

Author : Karinne Ludlow,Stuart J. Smyth,José Falck-Zepeda
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461494409

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Socio-Economic Considerations in Biotechnology Regulation by Karinne Ludlow,Stuart J. Smyth,José Falck-Zepeda Pdf

Within the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) was established as an implementing agreement. The CPB is an international agreement establishing the rights of recipient countries to be notified of and to approve or reject the domestic import and/or production of living modified organisms (LMOs). Decisions regarding import/production are to be on the basis of a biosafety assessment. Article 26.1 of the CPB allows for the (optional) inclusion of socio-economic considerations (SECs) into that biosafety assessment process. This book compiles expert assessments of the issues relevant to SEC assessment of LMOs and fundamental for decisions regarding whether to undertake such assessments at all. It includes an overview of the inclusion of SEC assessment in the regulation of LMOs that looks at the rationale for the inclusion of SECs, in the context of the existing science-based risk assessment systems. This book reviews the various factors that can and have been suggested for inclusion in SEC assessment, and provides a meaningful dialogue about the contrasts, benefits and tradeoffs that are, and will, be created by the potential move to the inclusion of SECs in the regulation of LMOs, making it of interest to both academics and policy-makers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biotechnology
ISBN : MINN:31951D00357121T

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Biotechnology in a Global Economy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Melinda E. Cooper
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780295990316

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Life as Surplus by Melinda E. Cooper Pdf

Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without taking into account the simultaneous rise of neoliberalism as a political force and an economic policy. From the development of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s to the second Bush administration's policies on stem cell research, Cooper connects the utopian polemic of free-market capitalism with growing internal contradictions of the commercialized life sciences. The biotech revolution relocated economic production at the genetic, microbial, and cellular level. Taking as her point of departure the assumption that life has been drawn into the circuits of value creation, Cooper underscores the relations between scientific, economic, political, and social practices. In penetrating analyses of Reagan-era science policy, the militarization of the life sciences, HIV politics, pharmaceutical imperialism, tissue engineering, stem cell science, and the pro-life movement, the author examines the speculative impulses that have animated the growth of the bioeconomy. At the very core of the new post-industrial economy is the transformation of biological life into surplus value. Life as Surplus offers a clear assessment of both the transformative, therapeutic dimensions of the contemporary life sciences and the violence, obligation, and debt servitude crystallizing around the emerging bioeconomy.

Author : Rolf Schmid,Xin Xiong
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000294644

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Biotech in China by Rolf Schmid,Xin Xiong Pdf

In her quest for global leadership in science and technology, the People’s Republic of China has attained top ranks in the number of scientific publications, "hot papers," or national and international patent applications. However, analysis of the underlying structures and mechanisms is hindered by the sheer flood of data, stringent government control of all media, and ambiguities inherent in translation from Chinese. This book overcomes these difficulties and provides a concise picture of biotechnology-related research and development in China. It begins with brief accounts of China’s geography, people, political and administrational structure, economy, finance, infrastructure related to science and technology, and educational system. It presents succinct accounts on structures and developments in biomedicine, diagnostics, agriculture, fermented food, bioindustry, and environmental biotechnology, with reference to government, industry, and academia. Finally, it predicts the next steps in Chinese biotechnology for the national agenda and, in view of China’s ambitious global development strategy, the Belt and Road Initiative.

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0941375609

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Biotechnology in a Global Economy by DIANE Publishing Company Pdf

Author : Mila Avramovic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015037426551

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An Affordable Development? by Mila Avramovic Pdf

Biotechnology is playing an increasing role in medicine and agriculture in industrialized nations. This book asks how these developments have affected the majority of the world's population in the Third World. The author presents a detailed examination of the history of the financial structure of biotechnology in the West (predominantly the United States), what its focus has been, and how developing nations can feasibly undertake biotechnology research in the areas that are of greatest importance to them.

Author : Robbin Shoemaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756711878

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Economic Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology by Robbin Shoemaker Pdf

Addresses the fact that ag. biotech. (AB) has been advancing very rapidly, and while it presents many promises, it also poses many questions. Many dimensions to AB need to be considered to adequately inform public policy. Policy is made more difficult by the fact that AB encompasses many policy issues addressed in very different ways. The report identifies several key areas -- ag. research policy, industry structure, production and marketing, consumer issues, and future world food demand -- where AB is dramatically affecting the public policy agenda. Focuses on the economic aspects of these issues and addresses some current and timely issues as well as longer term issues. Charts and tables.

Author : B. Carlsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461509158

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Technological Systems in the Bio Industries by B. Carlsson Pdf

Technological Systems in the Bio Industries: An International Study represents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and systematic effort to understand the nature and role of technological change in a rapidly evolving arena of economic activity that can be loosely referred to as the bio industries. These include biomedical industries that deliver goods and services used in health care, including those based on genetic engineering, as well as applications of biotechnology in other industries such as agriculture, food production, and the forest industries. This volume is the third in a continuing series of studies on technological systems; it seeks to identify and address new sets of conceptual and methodological issues in analyzing innovation systems, particularly as regards the delimitation of relevant systems. The book makes an in-depth comparison of the biomedical clusters in Sweden and Ohio. It also sheds light on the emergence of new science-based technological systems.