Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology, An International Perspective

Damian Hine, University of Queensland and John Kapeleris, Deputy CEO, Australian Institute for Commercialisation, Brisbane, Australia

• Contents: 1. Introduction: Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2. Entrepreneurship in the Biotechnology Context 3. Innovation and R&D Management 4. Funding Innovation in Biotechnology Companies 5. Intellectual Assets I – Intellectual Capital in Biotechnology Firms 6. Intellectual Assets II – Intellectual Gravity and Managing IP in Biotechnology Firms 7. The Cycle Game I – Product Life Cycle, R&D Cycle and Organizational Life Cycle 8. The Cycle Game II – Business, Market and Industry Cycles 9. Public Policy, Regulatory and Ethical Challenges Facing the Entrepreneurial Biotechnology Firm 10. The Biotechnology Value Chain 11. Biotechnology Industry and Firm Structures 12. Product Development and Innovation Diffusion 13. Biotechnology Industry Growth Models: An International Perspective Index

'This book is aimed at providing a large audience, including practitioners, politicians and decision-makers, with useful insights in relation to innovation and entrepreneurship in the biotechnology industry. It offers an international perspective and a set of theoretical lenses to underline the roles and the effects of entrepreneurship and scientific innovation as key factors to support new firm emergence and to achieve and maintain competitiveness in this so important industry.'