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The coming biotech age : the business of bio-materials / Richard W. Oliver. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oliver, Richard W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biotechnology industries--Forecasting.
- Biotechnology industries.
- Biotechnology--Forecasting.
- Biotechnology.
- Bioengineering--Forecasting.
- Bioengineering.
- Molecular biology--Forecasting.
- Molecular biology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 266 p. ) ill., maps ;
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McGraw Hill, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "An essential discussion to the future of business, The Coming Biotech Age describes the biotech revolution taking place within our leading universities, corporations and government. Without daunting scientific jargon, Oliver reveals what everyone - CEOs, investors, policymakers and others interested in the social ramifications of bioterials - must know, for instance: how the biotech lab is becoming a Gene-Factory - with the mass production of healthcare, agricultural, and commercial/industrial products; how the Bioterial Age will fundamentally alter the laws of economics as we know them; and how biotechnology will eliminate aging and disease."
- "Oliver also takes a look at the biovisionaries - researchers, scientists and business leaders - behind the biotech movement, and the biocapitalists who are poised to cash in on the new era."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- The bioterials century
- The Twenty-First century: the age of bioterials
- Conquering matter: explorations in the cellular and subatomic universe
- Bioeconomics: the new laws of bioterials
- The first law of bioeconomics: the daily doubling of knowledge
- The second law of bioeconomics: the global scope of bioterials is inversely proportional to its subatomic scale
- The third law of bioeconomics: accelerating vertical growth rates
- New materials: every atom a factory
- Designer genes: re-engineering the body
- Betting the "pharma": the biomedical complex
- Betting the farm: the bionic farmer
- Financing the dream: the biocapitalists
- Bioethics: the Chinese wall
- Afterword: 2005, the end of the beginning
- Appendix: statement of principles.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-07-136870-1
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