"The life sciences are widely treated as a field and an industry with high-growth potential, and while neoclassical economic theory prescribes that capital are invested in emerging industries, there is a perceived shortage of venture capital among life science entrepreneurs. Financing Life...

1. The concept of the bioeconomy -- 2. Biopolitics, neoliberalism, and the calculative worldview : the economics of life -- 3. New drug development, biotechnology, and the enactment of life -- 4. The tissue economy -- 5. Living in and managing the bioeconomy.

"This book reports empirical material from three case studies in the pharmaceutical industry, the biotechnology industry and the domain of academic research. New technoscientific frameworks that have not yet translated into new therapies, in the future, may play a more central role in the...