A Biotech Manager's Handbook: A Practical Guide

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M O'Neill, M M Hopkins
Elsevier, 2012 M05 2 - 414 páginas
A biotech manager's handbook lays out - in a simple, straightforward manner - for the manager or would-be entrepreneur the basic principles of running a biotech company. Most managers in biotechnology companies are working in their first company or in their first managerial role. Their expertise and experience in the scientific part of the work can be taken as a given but there is a whole range of other skills to be learned and areas of expertise to come to terms with. Small companies do not have big budgets to hire people or time to become an expert in so many areas. The book starts by outlining the state of the biopharmaceutical industry and goes on to explain the importance of planning (no matter what the size of the company). Succeeding chapters deal with the basics of intellectual property, perspectives from a university technology transfer office and how to raise some initial funding from an investor and entrepreneur.
  • No other 'how to' manual exists for this sector
  • Written by a range of expert professionals in each area, all in one book
  • Is the only 'bench to bedside' book covering the whole spectrum of development
 

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challenges and opportunities
1
so you want to be a bioentrepreneur?
23
3 Leadership and you
55
4 Managing self situations and stress
79
5 Its all in the plan
105
6 Exploring funding routes for therapeutics firms
131
7 Raising funds and managing finances
157
8 Introduction to intellectual property
179
why and how
209
10 Successful registration of new therapies in the EU and USA
245
design and practice
283
starting out
309
to the deal and beyond
341
14 Conclusions and final thoughts
359
Index
369
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Michael Hopkins is a biologist is currently a Research Fellow at Science Policy research Unit, University of Sussex, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Cass Business School (London). He specialises in the study of innovation systems related to innovations in healthcare, spanning public and private sectors, products (e.g. drugs) and services (e.g. diagnostic testing). He has published widely in natural science and social science fields on the role of intellectual property, regulation and finance in innovation (including in Nature, Nature Biotechnology and Research Policy - the top journals in their respective fields). From 2004-2006 Michael was a Research Fellow of the Economic & Social Research Council and Medical Research Council. Additionally he has worked on a wide range of research projects funded by the European Commission's framework programmes, and Joint Research Centre, the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts, the UK's Department of Trade and Industry, Human Genetics Commission and Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property.

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