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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452642703321

Autore

Cooke Philip (Philip N.)

Titolo

Growth cultures [[electronic resource] ] : the global bioeconomy and its bioregions / / Philip Cooke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2007

ISBN

1-136-78197-8

0-203-08730-5

0-203-82480-6

1-136-78198-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Genetics and society

Disciplina

338.4/76606

Soggetti

Biotechnology - Economic aspects

Pharmaceutical biotechnology - Economic aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-282) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Growth Cultures; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents ; List of tables; List of figures; Preface; 1 Growth cultures: meaning and interpretation in the knowledge age ; 2 The knowledge economy and growth cultures: a theoretical framework; 3 Bioscientific research and the emergence of knowledge domains; 4 The microbiology revolution and the crisis in pharmaceuticals; 5 Academic growth cultures: the rise of bioregional knowledge domains; 6 The shifting landscape of bioscience policy; 7 The cluster model in biotechnology: nodes in global networks

8 Healthcare biotechnology in developing countries9 Environmental, energy and agro-food bioregions; 10 The financing of biopharmaceuticals firms; 11 Conclusions: biotechnology's proximities, pipelines and platforms; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<P>This groundbreaking book is the first comparative analysis of the relative strengths of global bioregions. <EM>Growth Cultures</EM> investigates the rapidly growing phenomena of biotechnology and sets this study within a knowledge economy context. Philip Cooke proposes a new knowledge-focused theoretical framework, 'the New Global



Bioeconomy', against which to test empirical characteristics of biotechnology. </P><P>In this timely volume, Cooke unifies concepts from the sociology of science, economic sociology and evolutionary economic geography to focus on the problems and prospects for pol

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462318403321

Autore

Thomas R. Murray (Robert Murray), <1921->

Titolo

Explaining conversations [[electronic resource] ] : a developmental social-exchange theory / / R. Murray Thomas and Marie K. Iding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Jason Aronson, 2012

ISBN

1-280-67990-5

9786613656834

0-7657-0877-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

IdingMarie K. <1957->

Disciplina

302.34/6

Soggetti

Conversation

Communication and culture

Socialization

Child development

Sociolinguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. The theory components -- pt. 3. Enhancing social-exchange skill -- pt. 4. Afterthoughts.

Sommario/riassunto

Explaining Conversations offers a different way of interpreting people's social exchanges than has been available in the past. The book is replete with examples of people's verbal interactions in the form of chats, arguments, debates, and negotiations, both within a culture and across cultures. The volume's subtitle, A Developmental Social-Exchange Theory, identifies a theme featured in Chapters 2 and 5-the typical pattern by which social-exchan