Venturing into the Bioeconomy: Professions, Innovation, Identity

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 13
The body in parts......Page 14
Some historical antecedents of biopharmatechnology......Page 18
Studying the organization of the bioeconomy......Page 26
Outline of the book......Page 28
Introduction......Page 31
Populating the bioeconomy......Page 32
Summary and conclusions......Page 53
Introduction......Page 55
The regime of the bioeconomy......Page 59
Images of the body......Page 69
The concept of biomedicalization......Page 74
The tissue economy......Page 83
Genetics, genomics and pharmacogenomics: the new technoscientific regime......Page 91
Summary and conclusion......Page 110
Introduction......Page 113
The new drug development process......Page 115
Setting the stage from 2008 to 2009: great cash-flow, but many concerns......Page 119
Coping with uncertainty in new drug discovery: epistemic objects and the culture of prediction......Page 124
Summary and conclusion......Page 163
Introduction......Page 165
The emergence and growth of the biotech sector......Page 166
Biotechnology entrepreneurs and the potentiality of the life sciences......Page 173
Summary and conclusion......Page 203
Introduction......Page 205
Innovation work in the university setting......Page 206
The field of research: systems biology......Page 214
Academic researchers in the field of systems biology......Page 219
Summary and conclusion......Page 242
Introduction......Page 246
Technoscience and its \'impurity\'......Page 247
Professionalism in the bioeconomy......Page 252
Studying the bioeconomy on the basis of organization theory......Page 256
Managerial implications......Page 259
The future of the life sciences......Page 262
Summary and conclusion......Page 268
Appendix: On Methodology and Data Collection and Analysis......Page 270
Bibliography......Page 279
Index......Page 300