附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction / Jens Laage-Hellman, Maureen McKelvey and Annika Rickne -- 2. Conceptualizing and measuring modern biotechnology / Johan Brink, Maureen McKelvey and Keith Smith -- Part II. Setting the scene -- 3. Stylized facts about innovation processes in modern biotechnology / Maureen McKelvey, Annika Rickne and Jens Laage-Hellman -- 4. The post-genome era : rupture in the organization of the life science industry? / Michel Quere -- 5. An overview of biotechnology innovation in Europe : firms, demand, government policy and research / Jacqueline Senker -- Part III. Challenging the existing -- 6. Risk management and the commercialization of human genetic testing in the UK / Michael M. Hopkins and Paul Nightingale -- 7. Networks and technology systems in science-driven fields : the case of European food biotechnology / Finn Valentin and Rasmus Lund Jensen -- 8. Future imperfect : the response of the insurance industry to the emergence of predictive genetic testing / Stefano Brusoni, Rachel Cutts and Aldo Geuna -- 9. Emergent bioinformatics and newly distributed innovation processes / Andrew McMeekin, Mark Harvey and Sally Gee -- Part IV. Forming the new -- 10. The dynamics of regional specialization in modern biotechnology : comparing two regions in Sweden and two regions in Australia, 1977-2001 / Johan Brink, Linus Dahlander and Maureen McKelvey -- 11. On the spatial dimension of firm formation / Annika Rickne -- 12. Examining the marketplace for ideas : how local are Europe's biotechnology clusters? / Steven Casper and Fiona Murray -- 13. Creation and growth of high-tech SMEs : the role of the local environment / Corinne Autant-Bernard, Vincent Mangematin and Nadine Massard -- Part V. Conclusions -- 14. Reflections and ways forward / Hannah Kettler, Maureen McKelvey and Luigi Orsenigo.
摘要:This book is a highly ambitious work, the joint product of 25 co-authors. It represents an attempt to examine modern biotechnology as an economic process and, in so doing, it draws heavily - and successfully - upon the conceptual framework of evolutionary economics and the literature on industrial management. The empirical focus is on the present-day European scene, and it is a great virtue of the book that it unpacks and illuminates the diversity that characterizes that scene today. The wide coverage, along with the differing perspectives of individual authors, provides the reader with an inv.
