Biotechnology and Innovation Systems
Biotechnology and Innovation Systems

Author: Bo Göransson

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1781001421

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This book explores how policies targeting public research institutions, such as universities, contribute to the appropriation of biotechnology through national innovation systems. Around the world, biotechnology has become a driving force for dramatic change in systems and policies intended to spur innovation. The leading contributors expertly construct a detailed picture of policy approaches that support biotechnology and how such approaches work under different economic and social conditions. They also provide an insight into the role of universities in this process. Researchers, academics, students, policy advisors, decision-makers and other professionals involved, and working in, the fields of biotechnology, innovation systems, higher education and development will find this book an invaluable resource.

Innovation in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Innovation in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Publisher: OECD

Published: 2006-04-11

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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This publication examines the innovation system in pharmaceutical biotechnology in eight OECD countries - Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain - and makes recommendations advocating an integrated policy approach.

Varieties of Innovation Systems
Varieties of Innovation Systems

Author: Michael Ortiz

Publisher: Campus Verlag

Published: 2013-05

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 3593398982

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Investigates the governance structures and mechanisms of knowledge and technology transfer in the context of innovation and production systems in six regions of Europe. With analyses of strengths and weaknesses, barriers, and shortcomings, this book identifies best practice models and policy recommendations for the investigated regions.

The Biotechnologists
The Biotechnologists

Author: Stephanie Jones

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1991-12-12

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1349123161

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In The Biotechnologists, a series of outstanding biotechnology entrepreneurs - from the USA, the UK and continental Europe - tell their own stories of how they played a part in the evolution of the biotechnology companies they founded and/or now run. The book also looks at the role of venture capital and other forms of financing through their key stages of growth. A detailed introduction outlines the emergence of the biotech boom and its progress to date. A glossary explains scientific terms.

Creating Silicon Valley in Europe
Creating Silicon Valley in Europe

Author: Steven Casper

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007-07-05

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0199269521

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Creating Silicon Valleys in Europe employs careful empirical studies of the biotechnology and software industries in the United States and several European economies, to examine the relative success of policies aimed at cultivating the 'Silicon Valley model' of organizing and financing companies in Europe.

Effective Technology Transfer In Biotechnology: Best Practice Case Studies In Europe
Effective Technology Transfer In Biotechnology: Best Practice Case Studies In Europe

Author: Oliver Uecke

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2015-01-06

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1783266821

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Biotechnology is referred to as one of the key enabling technologies of the 21st century. It has the potential to offer solutions for a number of health and resource-based problems the world is facing, such as unmet medical needs and fossil fuel dependency. Considerable effort and investment has been expended in recent years to try and improve the outcomes of technology transfer in order to fulfill this potential.This book presents seventeen best-practice case studies on the topic of effective technology transfer in biotechnology. The selected case studies focus on technology transfer offices, funding models, incubators, education and clusters. Each presents an overview of an initiative that was deployed in Europe with the aim of supporting and stimulating the transfer of biotechnology discoveries and technologies from research laboratories to society. Readers are provided with a critical assessment of each initiative and policy makers, entrepreneurs, cluster managers and research institute managers will find inspiring lessons they can draw on when developing and implementing similar initiatives elsewhere.These cases are the product of research undertaken as part of the ETTBio (Effective Technology Transfer in Biotechnology) project, co-financed by the European Union (ERDF — European Regional Development Fund) and made possible by the INTERREG IVC Programme. ETTBio commenced in January 2012 and concluded in December 2014.