The Other Life-Sciences Industry

Science ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cliff Mintz
Keyword(s):  
Life Sciences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Life Sciences Industry

Invisible Architectures

2000 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Basic Problem ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Strategy I ◽  
The Invisible

The ArgumentIn this essay I will sketch a few instances of how, and a few forms in which, the “invisible” became an epistemic category in the development of the life sciences from the seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth century. In contrast to most of the other papers in this issue, I do not so much focus on the visualization of various little entities, and the tools and contexts in which a visual representation of these things was realized. I will be more concerned with the basic problem of introducing entities or structures that cannot be seen, as elements of an explanatory strategy. I will try to review the ways in which the invisibility of such entities moved from the unproblematic status of just being too small to be accessible to the naked or even the armed eye, to the problematic status of being invisible in principle and yet being indispensable within a given explanatory framework. The epistemological concern of the paper is thus to sketch the historical process of how the “unseen” became a problem in the modern life sciences. The coming into being of the invisible as a space full of paradoxes is itself the product of a historical development that still awaits proper reconstruction.

scholarly journals Academic Teams and Commercialization in the Life Sciences

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paige Clayton ◽  
Maryann Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Firm Growth ◽  
Firm Behavior ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Entrepreneurial Team ◽  
Academic Teams ◽  
Life Sciences Industry

We review the literature on entrepreneurial team formation with a focus on data to study academic teams and summarize our empirical work on the life sciences industry. We consider how academics form teams to start new companies and the implications of various configurations on firm behavior with regards to patenting, survival and firm growth. We present several empirical challenges facing research on academic teams and conclude with suggestions for future research.

Building strong research associations Interdisciplinarity, theory-building, and policy in politics and the life sciences and health services research

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 56-60
Author(s):  
William P. Brandon
Keyword(s):  
Health Services Research ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Research Area ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Lower Case

This essay explores efforts to establish interdisciplinary research associations by comparing two organizations that were founded in the early 1980s. One has focused on the field of politics and the life sciences and the other on health services research. Both are involved in securing recognition for a research area—or “field of research”—that had not previously been conceptualized as a coherent academic or professional enterprise. The motivation for this paper is my interest in politics and the life sciences (the field), the organization—the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences that was established in 1980 to foster scholarly study of the field—and its journal Politics and the Life Sciences. (For the sake of clarity I adopt the convention of signifying a field entirely in lower-case orthography, beginning an organizational name with capital letters and naming the related journals in italics.)

Onomantic and Semantic Considerations

1988 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred W. Riggs
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Political Evolution ◽  
The World

Corning and Hines make a useful contribution to the study of politics by distinguishing sharply between “political development” and “political evolution.” Their emphasis on the multidisciplinary dimensions of real life changes as they occur (and have occurred) throughout the world is also needed. We must, assuredly, go beyond political science, both to the other social sciences (including economics) and also, notably, to the life sciences.

EYE ON CHINA

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (02) ◽  
pp. 6-14
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Genetically Modified Crops ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Cancer Drug ◽  
Drug Prices ◽  
Anti Cancer ◽  
Life Sciences Industry ◽  
Negative Population

China approves five genetically modified crops. China’s science awards further encourage innovation. Severe and prolonged air pollution affects productivity of workers. Negative population growth looms ahead for China. Genetically-enhanced human blood vessel cells. New bat-borne virus related to Ebola. China’s homegrown anti-cancer drug wins international recognition. Tariff changes aim to cut drug prices. New procurement scheme to reduce drug prices. China brings more new drugs to market with fast-track approval. Tougher supervision vowed over food and drugs. Project seeks uniformity in treatment of China’s number one killer. Great potential seen in AI-powered medical imaging. Updates from China’s life sciences industry.

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