Title: Commercialisation of bio-pharmaceutical therapies and risk management: the impact on the sustainability of markets for recombinant drugs
Authors: Rudiger Wink
Addresses: Hochschule fur Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur HTWK Leipzig, Postfach 301166, 04251 Leipzig, Germany
Abstract: Due to its influence on changes of research paradigms and development of hitherto unknown applications, commercialisation of biotechnological knowledge causes new challenges for regulatory procedures in pharmaceutical markets. By affecting time and probability of successful commercialisation, private and public institutions systems of risk management also influence the structure of financing science-based biotechnological start-ups. Based on a theoretical approach, which integrates the effects of learning and knowledge path dependencies into traditional neoclassical principal–agency theory, the impact of risk assessment procedures in four different countries (USA, UK, Germany, and Japan) on the emergence and sustainability of markets for (radical) new biotechnological knowledge is compared.
Keywords: venture capital markets; principal–agent theory; risk management; absorptive capacity; network externalities; regulatory systems; technology commercialisation; recombinant drugs; biotechnology; pharmaceutical.
International Journal of Biotechnology, 2004 Vol.6 No.2/3, pp.186 - 201
Published online: 07 Jul 2004 *
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