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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814765903321

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

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