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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Surveying the Issues: Technologies, Biology and Economics
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Managing Technology: The Economics of Managing Technological Developments
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Managing Biology: The Economics of Managing Biological Resistance
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Managing Industry: The Economics of Managing Industrial Impacts
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Policy Conclusions
About this book
The advent of new biotechnologies implies significant changes in the world, both biologically and industrially. Biologically, these new technologies represent changes on a scale never before witnessed in the context of evolutionary systems. How these systems will respond to these changes is uncertain and potentially very significant. The first part of this volume addresses these issues in a series of chapters considering the manner in which societies might analyse and manage these systemic responses to biotechnological changes.
The second part of the volume addresses the industrial issues concerning biotechnologies. One of the primary motivations for these changes is to enhance the appropriability of the value of innovation occurring within the life sciences sectors. Changing to a property rights-based system of biotechnology has implications for the nature of research and development within these sectors, and the diffusion and distribution of its benefits across the globe. Another set of chapters in this volume sets out a framework for considering these important industrial issues.
The volume is the outcome of a two-year project on the economics of managing biotechnologies in agriculture. It is recommended to academics and policy makers interested in the issues concerning society's options in the management of this process of technological change.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Economics and School of Law, University College London, UK
Timothy Swanson
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Economics of Managing Biotechnologies
Editors: Timothy Swanson
Series Title: Economy & Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47659-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0499-5Published: 31 March 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-3950-4Published: 03 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47659-4Published: 11 April 2006
Series ISSN: 0924-1019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 276
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Economics, Nature Conservation, Economic Growth, Agricultural Economics