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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823745003321

Autore

Hoffman William R.

Titolo

The biologist's imagination : innovation in the biosciences / / William Hoffman & Leo Furcht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-19-936132-0

0-19-936131-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Classificazione

SCI086000

Disciplina

610.28

Soggetti

Medical innovations

Biology - Technological innovations

Life sciences - Technological innovations

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

Cover; The Biologist's Imagination; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; The Biologist's Imagination; 1 } Ideas, Progress, Wealth, and the Biological Revolution; 2 } Drugs, Biomolecules, Brainpower, and the Shifting Currents of Innovation; 3 } Regional Bioinnovation: Reaping the Harvest of the Local and the Global; 4 } Mendel's Journey from Peas to Petabytes; 5 } Toning Up Universities for Regional Growth; 6 } Splicing and Dicing: Property, Information, and the DNA of Innovation; 7 } Looking Ahead as an Industry Evolves; Conclusion: Seeding the Future; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Scholars and policymakers alike agree that innovation in the biosciences is key to future growth. The field continues to shift and expand, and it is certainly changing the way people live their lives in a variety of ways. With a large share of federal research dollars devoted to the biosciences, the field is just beginning to live up to its billing as a source of innovation, economic productivity and growth. Vast untapped potential to imagine and innovate exists in the biosciences given new tools now widely available. In The Biologist's Imagination, William Hoffman and Leo Furcht examine the h