The Economic and Social Dynamics of Biotechnology

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Tools for Analysing Biotechnology

      • John de la Mothe, Jorge Niosi

      Pages 3-5

3. Frameworks

   1. Front Matter

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   2. A Systems Framework for the Study of Economic and Social Dynamics of Biotechnology

      • Bo Carlsson

      Pages 9-27

   3. The Industrial Potential of Biotechnology: A Competence Bloc Analysis

      • Gunnar Eliasson

      Pages 29-52

   4. Biotechnology: Scientific Progress and Social Progress

      • Jacqueline Senker

      Pages 53-68

4. Measurement

   1. Front Matter

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   2. A Challenge for Measuring Biotechnology Activities: Providing a Comprehensive Perspective

      • Antoine Rose

      Pages 71-81

   3. Measuring the Economic Impacts of Biotechnology: From R&D to Applications

      • Anthony Arundel

      Pages 83-100

   4. Strategy and Performance Factors Behind Rapid Growth in Canadian Biotechnology Firms

      • Jorge Niosi

      Pages 101-114

   5. Assessing the Role of the University of California in the State’s Biotechnology Economy

      • Cherisa Yarkin

      Pages 115-131

5. Impacts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Internationally Comparable Indicators on Biochnology: A Stocktaking and Proposal for Work

      • Bill Pattinson, Brigitte Van Beuzekom, Andrew Wyckoff

      Pages 135-142

   3. The Contested International Regime for Biotechnology: Changing Politics and Global Complexity

      • G. Bruce Doern

      Pages 143-159

   4. Australian Biotechnology Firms: Problems in Appropriating Economic Returns to Knowledge?

      • Maureen McKelvey

      Pages 161-180

   5. Competing Business Models in the French Biotech Industry

      • Vincent Mangematin

      Pages 181-204

   6. Knowledge, Markets and Biotechnology

      • Nico Stehr

      Pages 205-214

   7. Biotechnology and Policy in an Innovation System: Strategy, Stewardship and Sector Promotion

      • John de la Mothe

      Pages 215-225

6. Conclusion

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`Biotechnology' - the integrated use of biochemistry, microbiology, and chemical engineering for the technological application of the capabilities of microbes and cultured tissue cells - is quickly becoming pervasive and challenging, rapidly developing both new techniques and industries.
The Economic and Social Dynamics of Biotechnology - a joint project between Statistics Canada, the Program of Research on Innovation, Management and Economy (PRIME) at the University of Ottawa, and CIRANO at the University of Quebec in Montreal - brings together economic, social, and statistical views on the dynamics of this set of emerging technologies. It examines the costs as well as the benefits - the challenges as well as the choices - of the rapidly expanding science-based world of biodiversity, biopharmaceuticals, and bioinformatics, and it provides suggestions for future work and research. This project fits into an ongoing research program at Statistics Canada to develop meaningful indicators for science, technology, and innovation in a technology-intensive economy. This book tells the story of the inner workings of innovation systems, technological systems, and competence blocs in the production, use, and diffusion of knowledge.

• Chemical Engineering
• Forschung & Entwicklung
• biochemistry
• bioinformatics
• biotechnology
• growth
• innovation

• PRIME, Faculty of Administration, University of Ottawa, Canada

  John Mothe

• CIRANO, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada

  Jorge Niosi

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