Venturing into the bioeconomy
Subtitle: professions, innovation, identity
By: Alexander Styhre and Mats Sundgren
Contributors: Sundgren, Mats, 1959-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230238367
Subjects: Pharmaceutical industry; Case studies; Biotechnology industries
Description: "This book reports empirical material from three case studies in the pharmaceutical industry, the biotechnology industry and the domain of academic research. New technoscientific frameworks that have not yet translated into new therapies, in the future, may play a more central role in the late-modern society"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Studying the Organization of the Bioeconomy; title: Professional Ideologies and Identities and Innovation Work; title: The Bioeconomy, Biocapital and New Regime of Science-based Innovation; title: Innovation Work in a Major Pharmaceutical Company; title: The Craft of Research in Biotech Companies; title: Exploring Life in the University Setting; title: Managing and Organizing the Bioeconomy.