This groundbreaking book is the first comparative analysis of the relative strengths of global
bioregions. Growth Cultures investigates the rapidly growing phenomena of biotechnology …

All would agree that with more than 3,000 new firms formed in Europe, Japan and the United
States focused on biotechnology, and with elegant strides forward in our understanding of …

The life sciences is an industrial sector that covers the development of biological products
and the use of biological processes in the production of goods, services and energy. This …

This special issue explores cases from Latin American countries, studied in comparison to
global trends in the arenas of public participation, scientific knowledge production …

Biotechnology, rather than being defined as a distinct industry like steelmaking or
shipbuilding, is instead a scientific knowledge base—a rapidly evolving technology—that …

The decades since the 1950s have witnessed major growth in the bioeconomy. Emergence
of the bioeconomy as a broad, creative and rapidly expanding part of the global economy …

Today, knowledge economies are a key asset for global competitiveness. Biotechnology is a
knowledge-driven sector because it consists of knowledge working on knowledge to create …

This Editorial introduces the Special Issue on 'Biotechnology Clusters and Beyond'. Drawing
on the interventions of five commissioned articles from Canada, Germany, Israel, the UK and …

Government policies across the world seek to create clusters of companies and other
stakeholders that specialise in a particular technology to build an 'industrial ecosystem'. This …

The continued development of the bioeconomy is expected to transform all segments of the
chemical industry, from bulk to fine chemistry. About 10% of the current chemical feedstock …