This paper describes and analyzes a series of complementary policy initiatives in India to adapt and commercialize existing global biotechnologies to meet local needs in healthcare, agriculture, industry and the environment in a more affordable manner. This evolving approach has been implemented...

In this study I examine how past performance influences the relative positions of actors in a network and how the actor-level heterogeneity in quality mediates the often-demonstrated association between brokerage and performance. On the collaboration network of U.S. biotech inventors during...

quot;Business developmentquot; (BD) is an often used, but not well defined, term in the business world. Taking a strategy-as-practice perspective as a background, we explore the daily activities of BD in the German biotechnology industry. We show how BD tasks are defined and how they are...

In this paper, we present a framework that can process a user query for retrieval of information from documents of different properties across multiple domains, with specific application to patent laws and regulations. The framework has three basic components. The first component is ontology...

Due to their need for important initial resources for product development, biotech start-ups build relationships with other organizations. In keeping with the evolutionary logic, these relational strategies are limited by the increased therapeutic value of the results of fundamental biological...

Opponents of biotechnology often complain that the large biotech firms have vigorously fought efforts to regulate the industry. In fact, the large firms - Monsanto (now Pfizer), Ciba-Geigy (now Syngenta), DuPont, Pioneer, Dow, Bayer, BASF, et al. - have been anything but consistent opponents of...

As the world's population grows, environmental stewardship will require science to find ways to produce more food on less land. The rapidly expanding use of bio-engineered corn, cotton, and soybean varieties has increased yields, reduced the use of agricultural chemicals, and saved growers time,...

Law meets biotechnology: on the one hand, there is patent law, offering intellectual protection for biotechnological inventions; on the other hand, there is safety law, offering protection against possible harmful effects of biotechnological developments. However, are patent law and safety law...

Biotechnology is a recognized research area that has increasingly advanced into new technologies and modern practices raising several legal, ethical and regulatory issues. The revolutionary speed of biotech innovations has had a significant impact on the protection of the rights of the...

The authors provide estimates of the economic impact of initial adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton and of its potential impacts beyond the few countries where it is currently common. They use the latest version of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and model. The results...