03048nam 2200625 450 991078927360332120200520144314.00-19-936132-00-19-936131-2(CKB)3710000000096226(EBL)1661339(SSID)ssj0001131777(PQKBManifestationID)12491745(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001131777(PQKBWorkID)11160517(PQKB)11314238(MiAaPQ)EBC1661339(Au-PeEL)EBL1661339(CaPaEBR)ebr10853237(CaONFJC)MIL586172(OCoLC)878078524(PPN)190689625(EXLCZ)99371000000009622620140410h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe biologist's imagination innovation in the biosciences /William Hoffman & Leo FurchtNew York :Oxford University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-997459-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexScholars 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 hMedical innovationsBiologyTechnological innovationsLife sciencesTechnological innovationsMedical innovations.BiologyTechnological innovations.Life sciencesTechnological innovations.610.28SCI086000bisacshHoffman William R.277087Furcht LeoMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789273603321The biologist's imagination3821749UNINA