Building Biotechnology: Starting, Managing, And Understanding Biotechnology Companies - Hardcover

Friedman, Yali

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0973467622 ISBN 13: 9780973467628

Publisher: Thinkbiotech, 2004

Synopsis

Biotechnology inventions, products, and resource needs are changing paradigms in healthcare, agriculture, and industrial processes. Because of the growing opportunity and spreading influence of biotechnology, business professionals in many fields find themselves challenged to understand the biotechnology industry. The maturity of enabling technologies, availability of eager capital, and market demand, also motivate scientists to commercialize their discoveries.

Building Biotechnology enables business professionals and entrepreneurial scientists to understand the biotechnology industry, its drivers, opportunities and strategies for commercial success:

- Fund and assemble a company
- Manage research & development, alliances, and funding
- Understand the legal, regulatory, political, commercial, and scientific factors influencing biotechnology
- Invest intelligently in biotechnology stocks
- Cultivate a career in biotechnology, with or without a Ph.D. or MBA

Informative, clear, and highly accessible, Building Biotechnology should be required reading for anyone looking to capitalize on the expanding influence of biotechnology.

About this title

Review

... an impressive compendium of information for people getting
started in the biotechnology industry. -- BioExecutive International, January 2005

...a robust, commercially-oriented readable book which should be
read not only by specialists but also by entrepreneurs -- Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, April 2005

Impressive in scope. The book is well suited for novices ...
interested readers ... active practitioners. -- Nature Biotechnology, December 2004

written in plain terms ... a sound foundation for better
understanding this exciting and rapidly changing line of commerce -- Midwest Book Review, Sept 2004

From the Publisher

As biotechnology changes paradigms in medicine, agriculture,
and industrial processes, there is a pressing need for cross-trained
individuals capable of developing new innovations and bringing them to
market. Building Biotechnology helps readers start and manage biotechnology
companies and understand the business of biotechnology. This acclaimed book
describes the convergence of scientific, political, regulatory, and
commercial factors that drive the biotechnology industry and define its
scope. Building Biotechnology is designed to meet the following needs:

* Many seasoned business professionals, even those within biotechnology
companies, are eager to apply their skills to biotechnology but are
challenged to understand how the industry operates.

* Many entrepreneurial scientists are eager to realize the commercial
potentials of their inventions and ideas but are unfamiliar with business
development.

* Many interested readers are frustrated by the lack of books describing
commercial aspects of biotechnology. This second edition significantly
expands upon the foundation laid by the first, updating case law and
business models in this dynamic industry and adding significantly more case
studies, informative figures and tables. Most importantly, Building
Biotechnology enables seasoned business professionals and entrepreneurial
scientists alike to understand the drivers of biotechnology businesses and
apply their established skills for commercial success.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thinkbiotech
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0973467622
• ISBN 13: 9780973467628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280