Growth Cultures: The Global Bioeconomy and Its Bioregions

by Philip Cooke

This groundbreaking book is the first comparative analysis of the relative strengths of global bioregions. Growth Cultures investigates the rapidly growing phenomena of biotechnology and sets this study within a knowledge economy context. Philip Cooke proposes a new knowledge-focused theoretical framework, 'the New Global Bioeconomy', against which to test empirical characteristics of biotechnology.

In this timely volume, Cooke unifies concepts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415392233
• ISBN13: 9780415392235
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 286 Pages