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Bezig met laden... Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (Synthesis) (editie 2011)door Sally Smith Hughes (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A great history of biotech beginnings, following the story of a scientist, Boyer, and an entrepreneur, Swanson, and how they created an industry. Along the way, there are groundbreaking patents, cultural changes, molding of public perception, corporate acceptance.. Any student of the sciences would benefit from this book - no matter if one were to pursue an academic life, corporate life, or other. The fact that biotech has completely changed an academic biologist's life in that she must now consider translational implications is fascinating and something I had not appreciated before this book. The details of patent infringement and IPO frenzy were not as appealing as the humble beginnings of the startup. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate from $35 to $89 in the first few minutes of trading, at that point the largest gain in stock market history. Coming at a time of economic recession and declining technological competitiveness in the United States, the event provoked banner headlines and ignited a period of speculative frenzy over biotechnology as a revolutionary means for creating new and better kinds of pharmaceuticals, untold profit, and a possible solution to national economic malaise. Drawing from an unparalleled collection of interviews with early biotech players, Sally Smith Hughes offers the first book-length history of this pioneering company, depicting Genentech's improbable creation, precarious youth, and ascent to immense prosperity. Hughes provides intimate portraits of the people significant to Genentech's science and business, including cofounders Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson, and in doing so sheds new light on how personality affects the growth of science. By placing Genentech's founders, followers, opponents, victims, and beneficiaries in context, Hughes also demonstrates how science interacts with commercial and legal interests and university research, and with government regulation, venture capital, and commercial profits. Integrating the scientific, the corporate, the contextual, and the personal, Genentech tells the story of biotechnology as it is not often told, as a risky and improbable entrepreneurial venture that had to overcome a number of powerful forces working against it. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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