Download or read book Biotechnology in a Global Economy written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by Office of Technology Assessment. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comercial activity; Industrial policy; International competitiveness; Options for action by congress.

Download or read book Biotechnology in a Global Economy written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Innovation in Global Industries written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over offshoring of production, transfer of technological capabilities, and potential loss of U.S. competitiveness is a long-running one. Prevailing thinking is that "the world is flat"â€"that is, innovative capacity is spreading uniformly; as new centers of manufacturing emerge, research and development and new product development follow. Innovation in Global Industries challenges this thinking. The book, a collection of individually authored studies, examines in detail structural changes in the innovation process in 10 service as well as manufacturing industries: personal computers; semiconductors; flat-panel displays; software; lighting; biotechnology; pharmaceuticals; financial services; logistics; and venture capital. There is no doubt that overall there has been an acceleration in global sourcing of innovation and an emergence of new locations of research capacity and advanced technical skills, but the patterns are highly variable. Many industries and some firms in nearly all industries retain leading-edge capacity in the United States. However, the book concludes that is no reason for complacency about the future outlook. Innovation deserves more emphasis in firm performance measures and more sustained support in public policy. Innovation in Global Industries will be of special interest to business people and government policy makers as well as professors, students, and other researchers of economics, management, international affairs, and political science.

Download or read book Beyond Borders written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Industrialization of Biology written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tremendous progress in biology over the last half century - from Watson and Crick's elucidation of the structure of DNA to today's astonishing, rapid progress in the field of synthetic biology - has positioned us for significant innovation in chemical production. New bio-based chemicals, improved public health through improved drugs and diagnostics, and biofuels that reduce our dependency on oil are all results of research and innovation in the biological sciences. In the past decade, we have witnessed major advances made possible by biotechnology in areas such as rapid, low-cost DNA sequencing, metabolic engineering, and high-throughput screening. The manufacturing of chemicals using biological synthesis and engineering could expand even faster. A proactive strategy - implemented through the development of a technical roadmap similar to those that enabled sustained growth in the semiconductor industry and our explorations of space - is needed if we are to realize the widespread benefits of accelerating the industrialization of biology. Industrialization of Biology presents such a roadmap to achieve key technical milestones for chemical manufacturing through biological routes. This report examines the technical, economic, and societal factors that limit the adoption of bioprocessing in the chemical industry today and which, if surmounted, would markedly accelerate the advanced manufacturing of chemicals via industrial biotechnology. Working at the interface of synthetic chemistry, metabolic engineering, molecular biology, and synthetic biology, Industrialization of Biology identifies key technical goals for next-generation chemical manufacturing, then identifies the gaps in knowledge, tools, techniques, and systems required to meet those goals, and targets and timelines for achieving them. This report also considers the skills necessary to accomplish the roadmap goals, and what training opportunities are required to produce the cadre of skilled scientists and engineers needed.

Download or read book Technology Transfer in Biotechnology written by Prabuddha Ganguli and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, the world's top experts impart their knowledge and experience, many in print for the first time. By considering developing country markets, this book is the first truly global guide to technology transfer, helping companies all around the world to avoid costly mistakes in product development and to recover investments quickly. Individual sections treat trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights, technology transfer in health and healthcare as well as in agriculture and the environment.

Download or read book The International Politics of Biotechnology written by Alan M. Russell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are three sections. The first considers the nature of the science itself, the normative questions rasied and the significance of gender responses. Following these broad issues, the second section addresses biotechnology in relation to international policial economy, trade and the environment, highlighting the politics of food and patents. The final section tackles the question of biological knowledge applied to weapons and the global responses.

Download or read book Biotechnology Around the World Series 1 written by Ajit Pandya and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the slew of biotechnology related events and news of late, the common man's curiosity and interest in a simple technical analysis of biotechnology have been sufficiently whetted. The ball was set in motion with the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2000. This was followed concurrently by other technological and on-the-ground developments such as the commercialization and cultivation of Genetically Modified (GM) crops.Global Scenario:According to a research report by Ernst & Young titled Beyond Borders 2002, the global biotech industry comprised of 4,284 companies (622 public; 3,6662 private) in 25 nations. The 622 public companies have generated revenues of $35 bn, spent $16 bn on R&D and employed more than 188,000 people. US biotech companies roughly account for 70% of the total global revenues of biotech industry but other regions are growing at a fast pace too. Biotech sectors in Europe, Canada and the Asia-Pacific region have experienced significant growth in the number of companies due to advancements in technologies, which are mining their way from research labs to full fledged commercialized enterprises. It was estimated that by 2005, the European biotech market could double to more than $100 bn. This growth has led the companies and experienced investors to look beyond the borders of their own countries in search of promising technologies, talented people and new markets. Biotech is an emerging sector in Asia-Pacific, which is experiencing considerable expansion in countries such as Australia, china, India and Singapore with the presence of around 500 biotech companies.Indian Biotech Industry:In the global biotech market, the current share of India is just about 2%; however, the future seems very bright as biotechnology is a fast emerging sector in the country. The Association of Biotech Led Enterprises (ABLE) pegs the Indian biotech market, including biosuppliers, Rs. 23.05 bn in the year 2002-03. The market size is estimated to be Rs. 18.30 bn if biosuppliers are excluded. The market is divided among the Bioindustrial, Bioservice, Bioagriculgture, Bioinformatics and Biosuppliers. Shantha Biotech was the first in India to launch an indigenous recombinant product called Shanvac-B (hepatitis-B vaccine) in 1997. Other players in this are included Biocon Bharat biotech, Bharat serums, Biological E Hlffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical, Panacea, Pfizer, Serum Institute of India, SmithKline Beecham and Wokhardt.

Download or read book Biotechnology Around the World written by Ajit Pandya and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the slew of biotechnology related events and news of late, the common man's curiosity and interest in a simple technical analysis of biotechnology have been sufficiently whetted. The ball was set in motion with the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2000. This was followed concurrently by other technological and on-the-ground developments such as the commercialization and cultivation of Genetically Modified (GM) crops. Global Scenario: According to a research report by Ernst & Young titled Beyond Borders 2002, the global biotech industry comprised of 4,284 companies (622 public; 3,6662 private) in 25 nations. The 622 public companies have generated revenues of $35 bn, spent $16 bn on R&D and employed more than 188,000 people. US biotech companies roughly account for 70% of the total global revenues of biotech industry but other regions are growing at a fast pace too. Biotech sectors in Europe, Canada and the Asia-Pacific region have experienced significant growth in the number of companies due to advancements in technologies, which are mining their way from research labs to full fledged commercialized enterprises. It was estimated that by 2005, the European biotech market could double to more than $100 bn. This growth has led the companies and experienced investors to look beyond the borders of their own countries in search of promising technologies, talented people and new markets. Biotech is an emerging sector in Asia-Pacific, which is experiencing considerable expansion in countries such as Australia, china, India and Singapore with the presence of around 500 biotech companies. Indian Biotech Industry: In the global biotech market, the current share of India is just about 2%; however, the future seems very bright as biotechnology is a fast emerging sector in the country. The Association of Biotech Led Enterprises (ABLE) pegs the Indian biotech market, including biosuppliers, Rs. 23.05 bn in the year 2002-03. The market size is estimated to be Rs. 18.30 bn if biosuppliers are excluded. The market is divided among the Bioindustrial, Bioservice, Bioagriculgture, Bioinformatics and Biosuppliers. Shantha Biotech was the first in India to launch an indigenous recombinant product called Shanvac-B (hepatitis-B vaccine) in 1997. Other players in this are included Biocon Bharat biotech, Bharat serums, Biological E Hlffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical, Panacea, Pfizer, Serum Institute of India, SmithKline Beecham and Wokhardt.

Download or read book From Breakthrough to Blockbuster written by Donald L. Drakeman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning in the 1970s, several scientific breakthroughs promised to transform the creation of new medicines. As investors sought to capitalize on these Nobel Prize-winning discoveries, the biotech industry grew to thousands of small companies around the world. Each sought to emulate what the major pharmaceutical companies had been doing for a century or more, but without the advantages of scale, scope, experience, and massive resources. How could a large collection of small companies, most with fewer than 50 employees, compete in one of the world's most breathtakingly expensive and highly regulated industries? This book shows how biotech companies have met the challenge by creating nearly 40% more of the most important treatments for unmet medical needs. Moreover, they have done so with much lower overall costs. The book focuses on both the companies themselves and the broader biotech ecosystem that supports them. Its portrait of the crucial roles played by academic research, venture capital, contract research organizations, the capital markets, and pharmaceutical companies shows how a supportive environment enabled the entrepreneurial biotech industry to create novel medicines with unprecedented efficiency. In doing so, it also offers insights for any industry seeking to innovate in uncertain and ambiguous conditions. Looking to the future, it concludes that biomedical research will continue to be most effective in the hands of a large group of small companies as long as national healthcare policies allow the rest of the ecosystem to continue to thrive"--

Download or read book The Gene Revolution and Global Food Security written by B. Oyelaran-Oyeyinka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the concept of innovation capacity, this book, using recent field data from countries in Asia and Africa, competently demonstrates how biotechnology can contribute to sustainable economic development. The approach articulates the imperative for developing countries to build up specific capabilities backed up by policies and institutions.

Download or read book Genes Trade and Regulation written by Thomas Bernauer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural (or "green") biotechnology is a source of growing tensions in the global trading system, particularly between the United States and the European Union. Genetically modified food faces an uncertain future. The technology behind it might revolutionize food production around the world. Or it might follow the example of nuclear energy, which declined from a symbol of socioeconomic progress to become one of the most unpopular and uneconomical innovations in history. This book provides novel and thought-provoking insights into the fundamental policy issues involved in agricultural biotechnology. Thomas Bernauer explains global regulatory polarization and trade conflict in this area. He then evaluates cooperative and unilateral policy tools for coping with trade tensions. Arguing that the tools used thus far have been and will continue to be ineffective, he concludes that the risk of a full-blown trade conflict is high and may lead to reduced investment and the decline of the technology. Bernauer concludes with suggestions for policy reforms to halt this trajectory--recommendations that strike a sensible balance between public-safety concerns and private economic freedom--so that food biotechnology is given a fair chance to prove its environmental, health, humanitarian, and economic benefits. This book will equip companies, farmers, regulators, NGOs, academics, students, and the interested public--including both advocates and critics of green biotechnology--with a deeper understanding of the political, economic, and societal factors shaping the future of one of the most revolutionary technologies of our times.

Download or read book Commercializing Biotechnology in the Global Economy written by Tom J. Mabry and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Building Global Biobrands written by Françoise Simon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two foremost marketing strategists combine their expertise in the first ever book to offer cutting-edge global strategies for marketing biotechnology. 20 charts & graphs.

Download or read book Advances in Biotechnology for Food Industry written by Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Biotechnology for Food Industry, Volume Fourteen in the Handbook of Food Bioengineering series, provides recent insight into how biotechnology impacts the global food industry and describes how food needs are diverse, requiring the development of innovative biotechnological processes to ensure efficient food production worldwide. Many approaches were developed over the last 10 years to allow faster, easier production of widely used foods, food components and therapeutic food ingredients. This volume shows how biotechnological processes increase production and quality of food products, including the development of anti-biofilm materials to decrease microbial colonization in bioreactors and food processing facilities. Presents basic to advanced technological applications in food biotechnology Includes various scientific techniques used to produce specific desired traits in plants, animals and microorganisms Provides scientific advances in food processing and their impact on the environment, human health and food safety Discusses the development of controlled co-cultivations for reproducible results in fermentation processes in food biotechnology

Download or read book Trading in Genes written by Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few scientific developments have given rise to as much controversy as biotechnology. Numerous groups are united in their opposition, expressing concern over environmental and health risks, impacts on rural livelihoods, the economic dominance of multinational companies and the ethical implications of crossing species boundaries. Among the supporters of the technology are those that believe in its potential to enhance food security, further economic development, increase productivity and reduce environmental pressures. As a result, countries - and sectors within countries - find themselves at odds with each other while potential opportunities for development offered by the use of biotechnology are seized or missed, and related risks go unmanaged. This book, a unique interdisciplinary collection of perspectives from the developing world, examines the ongoing debate. Writing for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, leading experts address issues such as diffusion of technology, intellectual property rights, the Cartagena Protocol, impacts of international trade, capacity building and biotechnology research and regulation. With the most recent and relevant examples from around the world, Trading in Genes offers the reader a single-volume overview of the connections between biotechnology, trade and sustainability that is both wide-ranging and thorough

Download or read book Trading In Genes written by Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2013 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few scientific developments have given rise to as much controversy as biotechnology. Numerous groups are united in their opposition, expressing concern over environmental and health risks, impacts on rural livelihoods, the economic dominance of multinational companies and the ethical implications of crossing species boundaries. Among the supporters of the technology are those that believe in its potential to enhance food security, further economic development, increase productivity and reduce environmental pressures. As a result, countries - and sectors within countries - find themselves at odds with each other while potential opportunities for development offered by the use of biotechnology are seized or missed, and related risks go unmanaged. This book, a unique interdisciplinary collection of perspectives from the developing world, examines the ongoing debate. Writing for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, leading experts address issues such as diffusion of technology, intellectual property rights, the Cartagena Protocol, impacts of international trade, capacity building and biotechnology research and regulation. With the most recent and relevant examples from around the world, Trading in Genes offers the reader a single-volume overview of the connections between biotechnology, trade and sustainability that is both wide-ranging and thorough