Science, the state and the city [electronic resource] : Britain's struggle to succeed in biotechnology / Geoffrey Owen and Michael M. Hopkins.
2016
HD9999.B443 O556 2016eb
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Science, the state and the city [electronic resource] : Britain's struggle to succeed in biotechnology / Geoffrey Owen and Michael M. Hopkins.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191794308 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 253 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198728009 doi
Call Number
HD9999.B443 O556 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.4766060941
Summary
This work examines the evolution of one of the most important technologies that has emerged in the last 50 years: biotechnology - the use of living organisms, or parts thereof to create useful products and services. It explains how firms based in the US took the lead in commercialising the technology, and why it has been so difficult for firms in other countries to match what the leading American companies have achieved.
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This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
This work examines the evolution of one of the most important technologies that has emerged in the last 50 years: biotechnology - the use of living organisms, or parts thereof to create useful products and services. It explains how firms based in the US took the lead in commercialising the technology, and why it has been so difficult for firms in other countries to match what the leading American companies have achieved.
This work examines the evolution of one of the most important technologies that has emerged in the last 50 years: biotechnology - the use of living organisms, or parts thereof to create useful products and services. It explains how firms based in the US took the lead in commercialising the technology, and why it has been so difficult for firms in other countries to match what the leading American companies have achieved.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 26, 2016).
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Hopkins, Michael M., author.
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