The Economic and Social Dynamics of Biotechnology (Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation Book 21)

`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. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Tools for Analysing Biotechnology....Pages 3-5 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 A Systems Framework for the Study of Economic and Social Dynamics of Biotechnology....Pages 9-27 The Industrial Potential of Biotechnology: A Competence Bloc Analysis....Pages 29-52 Biotechnology: Scientific Progress and Social Progress....Pages 53-68 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 A Challenge for Measuring Biotechnology Activities: Providing a Comprehensive Perspective....Pages 71-81 Measuring the Economic Impacts of Biotechnology: From R&D to Applications....Pages 83-100 Strategy and Performance Factors Behind Rapid Growth in Canadian Biotechnology Firms....Pages 101-114 Assessing the Role of the University of California in the State’s Biotechnology Economy....Pages 115-131 Front Matter....Pages 133-133 Internationally Comparable Indicators on Biochnology: A Stocktaking and Proposal for Work....Pages 135-142 The Contested International Regime for Biotechnology: Changing Politics and Global Complexity....Pages 143-159 Australian Biotechnology Firms: Problems in Appropriating Economic Returns to Knowledge?....Pages 161-180 Competing Business Models in the French Biotech Industry....Pages 181-204 Knowledge, Markets and Biotechnology....Pages 205-214 Biotechnology and Policy in an Innovation System: Strategy, Stewardship and Sector Promotion....Pages 215-225 Front Matter....Pages 227-227 Issues for Future Research, Measurement and Policy....Pages 229-233 Back Matter....Pages 249-281 "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."--BOOK JACKET.