US industry moves into biotechnology

The US biotechnology industry: industry dynamics and policy

The inseparability of the biotechnology industry and the state is a central theme in the analysis of the location and performance of biotechnology industry in the US and elsewhere. This paper reports on the results of a survey of US biotechnology companies looking particularly at their assessment of needs, barriers, strategies, and government programs. The paper shows that although there is an ...

Industry dynamics in biotechnology

The field of modern biotechnology is thought to have largely begun in 1980, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that a genetically-modified microorganism could be patented. The growth of the Biotechnology industry has stimulated extensive research on its determinants. One of the areas which has attracted a fair amount of attention is the distribution of firm size within an industry. What...

Biotechnology Industry Trends

The biotechnology industry is not defined by its products, but by the technologies employed in making them. Those technologies involve the use of biological processes to solve problems or to make useful products. Biotechnologies are primarily employed in the medical and pharmaceutical industries, but they are also used to increase crop yields, clean up hazardous waste, and increase the efficien...

Agricultural Biotechnology and Industry Structure

_________________________________________________ 1 Murray Fulton is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. Konstantinos Giannakas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This is University of Nebraska-Lincoln Agricultural Research Division Article No. 13269. The a...

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