This is a study of the commercial development of biotechnology which compares the initiatives, activities and organization of two firms--Genetech in the United States and Kabi in Sweden--as they brought knowledge to the market in the form of insulin and the human growth hormone. Writing from a broad evolutionary perspective, Maureen McKelvey's important study of one of the most modern science-based technologies will be of interest to all concerned with understanding the processes of innovation.
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`A very thorough piece of work' Long Range Planning, vol 33, 2000
`Her conceptual framework - evolutionary innovation - is designed to capture the kind of complexity that characterizes any natural or social ecosystem. And the episode she chooses to illuminate - the race to develop recombinant human growth hormone and insulin - is fascinating, historically significant, and occasionally dramatic.' Nature Biotechnology
...an excellent introduction...deserves the careful attention of historians of technology. - Louis Galambos. Technology and Culture. April 1998.
`Her conceptual framework - evolutionary innovation - is designed to capture the kind of complexity that characterizes any natural or social ecosystem. And the episode she chooses to illuminate - the race to develop recombinant human growth hormone and insulin - is fascinating, historically significant, and occasionally dramatic.' Nature Biotechnology
...an excellent introduction...deserves the careful attention of historians of technology. - Louis Galambos. Technology and Culture. April 1998.
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Maureen McKelvey is an Associate Professor, Department of Technology and Social Change at Linkoping University.
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Arguments about the importance of 'market pull' versus 'technology push' are in this sense artificial, since each market need entering the innovation cycle leads in time to a new design, and every successful new design, in time, leads to new market conditions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
basic scientific environment, national public contexts, somatostatin experiment, radical versus incremental change, early commercial uses, dedicated biotech firm, bacteria expression system, basic scientific results, new biotech firms, evolutionary technical change, basic scientific activities, genetic engineering knowledge, functioning production system, commercial trajectory, technological innovation processes, corporate researchers, innovating agents, more sensitive analytical methods, extra methionine, involving genetic engineering, engineered pharmaceuticals, genetic engineering techniques, genetically modified bacteria, human pituitary glands, technological activities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Generating Research, Specific Firm Challenges, Eli Lilly, Evolutionary Innovations, United States, City of Hope, San Francisco, Understanding Genetic Engineering, Porton Down, Stanford University, University of California, Medical World News, Centre Party, Dagens Nyheter, Stanford Research Institute, Hans Sievertsson, Peter Seeburg, Academic Senate, Pajaro Dunes, Pasteur Institute, Axel Ullrich, Linda Fryklund, Nobel Prize, Professor Boyer, The Economist New!
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Arguments about the importance of 'market pull' versus 'technology push' are in this sense artificial, since each market need entering the innovation cycle leads in time to a new design, and every successful new design, in time, leads to new market conditions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
basic scientific environment, national public contexts, somatostatin experiment, radical versus incremental change, early commercial uses, dedicated biotech firm, bacteria expression system, basic scientific results, new biotech firms, evolutionary technical change, basic scientific activities, genetic engineering knowledge, functioning production system, commercial trajectory, technological innovation processes, corporate researchers, innovating agents, more sensitive analytical methods, extra methionine, involving genetic engineering, engineered pharmaceuticals, genetic engineering techniques, genetically modified bacteria, human pituitary glands, technological activities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Generating Research, Specific Firm Challenges, Eli Lilly, Evolutionary Innovations, United States, City of Hope, San Francisco, Understanding Genetic Engineering, Porton Down, Stanford University, University of California, Medical World News, Centre Party, Dagens Nyheter, Stanford Research Institute, Hans Sievertsson, Peter Seeburg, Academic Senate, Pajaro Dunes, Pasteur Institute, Axel Ullrich, Linda Fryklund, Nobel Prize, Professor Boyer, The Economist New!
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