Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895–1995 - Hardcover

Galambos, Louis

 
9780521563086: Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895–1995
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521563089 ISBN 13: 9780521563086
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Networks of Innovation offers an historical perspective on the manner in which private-sector organizations have acquired, sustained, and periodically lost the ability to develop, manufacture, and market new serum antitoxins and vaccines. The primary focus is on the H. K. Mulford Company, on Sharp and Dohme, which acquired Mulford in 1929, and upon Merck & Co Inc., which merged with Sharp and Dohme in 1953. By surveying a century of innovation in biologicals, the authors are able to analyze the conditions that either promoted or prevented creative changes in this important industry. They show how the activities of these three commercial enterprises were related to a series of complex, evolving networks of scientific, governmental, and medical institutions in the United States and abroad. This is the first such history to draw exclusively on sources internal to Merck, one of the world's leading innovators in modern vaccines and pharmaceuticals.

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Review

'The work is admirably referenced and will be of value to all who take an interest in the field of biologicals. It will repay careful reading by those involved in the management of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry.' John Hunt, The Pharmaceutical Journal

Book Description

Networks of Innovation offers an historical perspective on how private sector organizations have acquired, sustained, and periodically lost the ability to develop, manufacture, and market new serum antitoxins and vaccines, and how their activities were related to complex, evolving networks of scientific, governmental, and medical institutions.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521563089
ISBN 13 
9780521563086
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
320

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