Comment: The UK Government's strategic approach to the biotechnology industry

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lord Sainsbury
Keyword(s):  
Biotechnology Industry ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
The Uk

Comment: The UK Government's strategic approach to the biotechnology industry

10.5912/jcb27 ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lord Sainsbury
Keyword(s):  
Biotechnology Industry ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Key Industry

The UK Government recognises that biotechnology is a key industry for the future and is determined to create the best possible conditions to continue the sector’s growth and success. This paper addresses the key initiatives being taken by government.

PERFORMANCE OF BIOAEROSOL SAMPLERS USED BY THE UK BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1029-1040 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.D. Griffiths ◽  
I.W. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Biotechnology Industry ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Global Competition and Biotechnology Industry: A Review

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Bello S.M.
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Environmental Control ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Living Organism ◽  
Biotechnology Industry ◽  
Pharmaceutical Products ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
The Uk

The biotechnology industry is a relatively new a distinct field that involve using living organism to produce desired product. This industry includes firms that develop, manufacture, and market pharmaceutical products, agricultural products, environmental control product, e.t.c. based on advanced biotechnology research. Although the growth in the global biotechnology industry neared double digits the past two years, the threat of entry into the market is weak due to high barriers to entry. However, because of the ease and low-cost production using biotechnology, it has increased competition in some product. Leading European nations with strong biotech sectors such as the UK and Germany are investing heavily in regenerative medicine (RM), seeking competitive advantage in this emerging sector. However, in the broader biopharmaceutical sector the European Union (EU) is outperformed by the US on all metrics, reflecting longstanding problems: limited venture capital finance, a fragmented patent system, and relatively weak relations between academia and industry. The current global downturn has exacerbated these difficulties. The crisis comes at a time when the European Union is reframing its approach to the governance of innovation and renewing its commitment to the goal of making Europe the leading player in the global knowledge economy.

Organizing a diabetes service

2011 ◽  
pp. 2005-2011
Author(s):  
Stephen C. L. Gough
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Health Care Need ◽  
Delivery Of Care ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk

The increasing worldwide incidence and prevalence of diabetes is placing substantial pressures on health care systems and economies. As a consequence individuals involved in the care of people with diabetes are looking at services currently being provided and examining ways in which care can be organized in the most cost-effective manner. Whilst the degree to which diabetes care is delivered differs from country to country, similar fundamental questions are being asked by those involved in the delivery of care, including: What are we currently providing? What do we need to provide? What are we able to provide? Although the answers to these questions are quite different not just between countries but often within specific localities within a country, the ultimate aim is the same: to provide the best possible care to as many people with diabetes as possible. The global diversity of diabetes health care need is enormous and while the solutions will be equally diverse, the approach to the development of a diabetes service will, for many organizations, be similar. The main focus of this chapter is based upon the model or the strategic approach developed in the UK, but many of the individual component parts are present in most health care settings.

scholarly journals (Re-)presenting the Paralympics: Affective Nationalism and the “Able-Disabled”

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 715-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Pullen ◽  
Daniel Jackson ◽  
Michael Silk
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Editorial Staff ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Disability Sport ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Editorial Decisions ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Imagined Nation ◽  
C4 Production

The relationship between media, sport, nations, and nationalism is well established; yet, there is an absence of these discussions at the intersection of communication, Paralympics, and disability studies. This omission is particularly significant considering the rapid commodification of the Paralympic spectacle, exacerbated by the entry of Channel 4 (C4) as the UK Paralympic rights holders, that has seen the games become an important site of disability (re-)presentation. In this article, we focus on the construction of national, normative, disabled bodies in Paralympic representation drawn from an analysis of three integrated data sets from C4’s broadcasting of the Rio 2016 Paralympics: interviews with C4 production and editorial staff, quantitative content analysis, and qualitative moving image analysis. We highlight the strategic approach taken by C4 to focus on successful medal-winning athletes, the implications this has on the sports and disability classifications given media coverage, and the role of affective high-value production practices. We also reveal the commercial tensions and editorial decisions that broadcasters face with respect to which disabilities/bodies are made hypervisible—and thereby those which are marginalized—as national disability sport icons that inculcate preferred notions of disability and the (re-)imagined nation.

Being a Zapatista wherever you are: reflections on academic-activist practice from Latin America to the UK

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Chatterton
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
The Uk

This chapter reflects on the experiences of undertaking solidarity work with the Zapatista social movement in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas, and what this means for building the solidarity economy. It focuses on six themes: education that challenges neoliberalism, developing resources with social movements, a commitment to participatory organising, building infrastructure for self-management, taking a strategic approach, and taking risks. The paper stresses that ‘being a Zapatista wherever you are’ is a rocky road which opens up openings and possibilities. It is a long journey with no clear endpoint that requires patience, openness, strength and compassion, but it is one that the author encourages the readers to embark upon joyfully with others.

Teaching quantitative research methods: the employability factor

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-19
Author(s):  
Charlotte Brookfield
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
First Year ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Quantitative Skills ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Degree Level ◽  
British Sociology

Various initiatives have been launched to encourage sociology students studying in the UK to engage more with quantitative research methods (for example: Dale et al., 2008; Adney and Carey, 2009; Falkingham et al., 2009), however, their success has been limited. Embedding quantitative methods in substantive sociology curricula has been suggested as one way to reduce students’ anxieties about learning quantitative research methods (Williams et al., 2015). This approach has been employed at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences, where quantitative skills have been strategically incorporated into various aspects of a first year undergraduate substantive module. This paper will reflect on the experience of teaching on this module. The paper will conclude that while the introduction of quantitative content into substantive modules indicates support for change, embedding alone cannot be viewed as a single solution to encouraging to students’ to learn about or utilise quantitative research methods. Two possible reasons for this will be suggested. Firstly, it will be argued that the majority of students no longer pursue sociology at degree level in order to gain the skills to become a competent social researcher, but rather see sociology as a discipline that will equip them with transferable and desirable skills for many occupations. Consequently, engagement with quantitative research methods is not essential to students’ strategic approach to learning as it was for previous generations who wished to understand how to study their social world. Secondly, it will be suggested that the deficit of quantitative methods in mainstream British sociology journals and the methodological preferences of practicing sociologists leads to speculation over the available staff who are capable of delivering an integrated curriculum with quantitative methods embedded in substantive modules.

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