Bioresource Policy, Business & Economics 292

The Economics of Biotechnology

READING LIST

As of August 2008

Compiler Press, 2008

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Arora, A. and Gamardella, A., "Complimentarity and External Linkages: The Strategies of the Large Firms in Biotechnology", The Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 38, No. 4, June 1990, pp. 361-379 (extract).

Audretsch, D. B and Stephan P. E., “Knowledge spillovers in biotechnology: sources and incentives”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 1999, 9 97-107.

Austin, D. H. "An Event-Study Approach to Measuring Innovative Output: The Case of Biotechnology." American Economic Review, May 1993, 83 (2), 253-258.

BIOTECanada, State of the Industry Report 2004

Biotechnology Industry Organization, History of Bio, Washington, 2005.

Cambrosio, A. & Keating, P., “Going Monoclonal”: Art, Science, and Magic in the Day-to-Day Use of Hybridoma Technology”, Social Problems, 35 (3), June 1988, 244-260.

Chartrand, H.H., "The Future of Genomic IPRs , March 2003, Saskatchewan Economics Journal, 4, 2003.

Chartrand, H.H., Neo Physiocracy: Biology, Economics & Epistemology, Doctoral Research Paper #1, April 2002

Chartrand, H.H., Enframing the World II: Design for a Philosophy of Biotechnology, Biotech & Society Seminar Series, Virtual College of Biotechnology, USASK, Oct. 25, 2005.

Chartrand, H.H., Ideological Evolution: The Competitiveness of Nations in a Global Knowledge-Based Economy, PhD Dissertation, University of Saskatchewan, July 2006.

Cohen, B.R., “Marjorie Grene: An Interview”, The Believer, June 2005.

Conference Board of Canada, Biotechnology in Canada: A Technology Platform for Growth, Ottawa, December 2005.

Cowan, R., David P.A. & Foray, D, ”The Explicit Economics of Knowledge: Codifcation and Tacitness”, Industrial and Corporate Change, 9 (2), 2000, 211-253.

Deftos, L.J., “Patenting Life: The Harvard Mouse that Has Not Roared”, The Scientist 14[23]:6, Nov. 27, 2000.

DeGregori , T.R., “The Plant Protection Racket”, Butterflies and Wheels, 2003.

DNA Copyright Institute, Welcome, http://www.dnacopyright.com/index.html, 2001.

Economist, The biology of art, The Economist, April 3, 1999, 69-71.

Economist, Survey: Biotechnology, May 2003

Part I: Climbing the helical staircase

Part II: Cluster Analysis

Part III: A Voyage of Discovery

Part IV: Platform Tickets

Part V: Planting a Seed

Part VI: Pharming Today

Part VII: Reinventing Yesterday

Part VIII: The Bugs of War

Part IX: Man and Superman

Part X: Sources

Environment Canada, A Canadian Perspective on the Precautionary Approach/Principle, Ottawa, 2001.

Ernst & Young, The Economic Contribution of the Biotechnology Industry to the U.S. Economy, BIO, 2000.

Fulton, M. & Giannakas, K., “Agricultural biotechnology and industry structure”, AgBioForum, 4(2), 137-151, 2001.

Gates2Biotech, Concise vocabulary of most common terms in biotechnology, 2006.

Gaisford, E., Hobbes, J.E. et al, The Economics of Biotechnology - Chapter 1: What is Biotechnology, Edward Elgar 2001, extract 1-7.

Gaisford, E., Hobbes, J.E. et al, The Economics of Biotechnology - Chapter 8: Economics and the Future of Biotechnology, Edward Elgar 2001, 223-229.

Gerard R.W., Units and Concepts of Biology, Science, New Series, 125 (3245), March 8, 1957, 429-433.

Government of Canada, BioPortal, 2007.

Grene M., On Some Distinctions Between Men and Brutes, Ethics, 57 (2), Jan. 1947, 121-127.

Grene, M., Martin Heidegger, IV -The Kantian Heritage, Bowes & Bowes, London, 1957.

Grene M., Aristotle and Modern Biology, Journal of the History of Ideas, 33 (3), July-Sept. 1972, 395-424.

Grene M.,& Depew, D., The Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History, Chapter 4 The Eighteenth Century II Kant and the Development of German Biology , Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Grene M.,& Depew, D., The Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History, Chapter 11: Biology and Human Nature, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Grene M.,& Depew, D., The Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History, Chapter 12: The Philosophy of Biology and the Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Hood, L., “A Personal View of Molecular Technology and How It Has Changed Biology”, Journal of Proteome Research, 1 (5), 2002, 399-409.

Howard, K., "The Bioinformatics Gold Rush", Scientific American, July 2000:

Kauffman S.A., “The Sciences of Complexity and “Origins of Order”, Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. Two: Symposia and Invited Papers, 1990, 299-322.

Kauffman S.A., At Home in the Universe Chapter 9 Organisms and Artifacts, Oxford University Press, 1995, 191-206.

Kauffman S.A., At Home in the Universe Chapter 12 An Emerging Global Civilization Oxford University Press, 1995, 273-304.

Kauffman S.A.,Investigations, Chapter 9: The Persistently Innovative Econosphere, Oxford University Press, 2000, 211-241.

Kauffman S.A.,Investigations, Chapter 10: A Coconstructing Cosmos?, Oxford University Press, 2000, 243-266.

Kalaitzandonakes, N., “Why does biotech regulation differ so much between the US and EU?”, AgBioForum, 3(2&3), 75-76, 2000.

Katz, S. B.,. “Language and persuasion in biotechnology communication with the public: How to not say what you're not going to not say and not say it”, AgBioForum, 4(2), 93-97, 2001.

Kevles, Daniel, “A history of patenting life in the United States with comparative attention to Europe and Canada: a report to the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies”, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2002.

Kerr, W. A., et al, “Intellectual property protection, biotechnology and developing countries: Will the trips be effective?, AgBioForum, 2(3&4), 203-211, 1999.

Khachatourians, G.G., “How Well Understood is the “Science” of Food Safety?”, in: Governing Food: Science, Safety and Trade, P. W. B. Phillips and R. Wolfe (eds.), Queen-McGill University Publishing, 2002, 13-23.

Lesser, W., “Intellectual property rights and concentration in agricultural biotechnology”, AgBioForum, 1(2), 56-61, 1998.

Lovgren, S., “Computer Made from DNA and Enzymes”, National Geographic News, February 24, 2003.

National Research Council, Opportunities in Biotechnology for Future Army Applications, Washington, 2001.

Oehmke, J.,. “Biotechnology R&D races, industry structure, and public and private sector research orientation”, AgBioForum, 4(2), 105-114, 2002.

OECD, The Knowledge-Based Economy, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, 1996.

OECD, National Innovation Systems, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, 1997.

OECD, Biotechnology, 2007.

Osterholm, M.T., “Preparing for the Next Pandemic”, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2005.

Phillips, P. & Khachatourians, G.G., The Biotechnology Revolution in Global Agriculture: Invention, Innovation and Investment in the Canola Sector, CABI Publishing, 2001.

Polanyi M., "Life’s Irreducible Structure", Science, New Series, 160 (3834), June 21, 1968, 1308-1312.

Research & Analysis Team, Economic Profile of the Canadian Biotechnology Sector, Life Sciences Branch, Industry Canada, Ottawa, March 31, 2000.

Rheinberger, H-J., "Experimental Complexity in Biology: Some Epistemological and Historical Remarks", Philosophy of Science, 64, Supplement, Dec. 1997, S245-S254.

Ridley, M., Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters: Preface and Chapter 1: Life, HarperCollins, NYC, 1999.

Samuels, W.J., “The Physiocratic Theory of Economic Policy”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 76(1), February 1962, 145-162.

Silva, J.G.,Copyright Protection Of Biotechnology Works: Into The Dustbin Of History?, Boston College Intellectual Property & Technology Forum, January 28, 2000.

Shiva, V., Monocultures of the Mind: Understanding the Threats to Biological and Cultural Diversity, Inaugural Hooper Lecture, Centre of International Programs, University of Guelph, September 21, 1993.

Shimoda, S., “Agricultural biotechnology: Master of the universe?, AgBioForum, 1(2), 62-68, 1998.

Tomasula, S., “Genetic Arts and the Aesthetics of Biology”, Leonardo, 35 (2), 2002, 137-144.

U.S. Department of Commerce, A Survey of the Use of Biotechnology in U.S. Industry, Washington, October 2003.

Wikipedia, Biotechnology, 2007.

Wolf, S. & Zilberman, D., “Public science, biotechnology, and the industrial organization of agrofood

Zucker, L. G. et al, “Intellectual Capital and the Birth of U.S. Biotechnology Enterprises”, American Economic Review, March 1998, 88 (1), 290-306.