Biotechnology companies

Table 3. Biotechnology Companies Utilizing Fermentation Technology in 1993...

Dodgson, M., The Management of Technological Learning Lessons from a Biotechnology Company, de Gruter, Berlin, 1991. 

The Health Sector (Food, Agriculture, and Pharmacy industries) has received the greatest impact of biotechnologies both, social and economical. Therefore, the chemical applications of biology to this sector have deeply contributed to that consolidation, leading the development of biotechnologies to a mature state. A list of biotechnological companies, exclusively associated to the Food and Pharmacy industries is included in Table 1. Those companies are not analyzed in this book and are only included for completeness purposes and to prevent the oil reader of useless search. 

Table 1. Biotechnology companies associated to the pharmaceutical and food industries...

The number of MB companies is constantly increasing however, it is becoming difficult to characterize them as MB. The field is growing laterally to incorporate activities of other biological areas. Therefore, in this section only companies devoted to MB will be included. Others with a broader scope will be included in the Biotechnology Companies section (Section 4). The reader must understand that the information is not intended to be comprehensive, but to show the versatility of services and equipment offered, as well as the broad spectrum of facilities available for the technologist. 

This biotechnology company has been a partner to researchers engaged in the field of DNA/RNA synthesis by starting as a supplier of high purity products and evolving to an active contract researcher. ChemGenes Corporation has developed its expertise in the field of DNA/RNA synthesis. Both, the reagent products and the specialized custom services are provided, either as services or as a research contractor. 

ApoCom is a commercial biotechnology company focused specifically on serving customers in the field of computational biology and environmental risk analysis. It was founded in November 1993. In 1994, ApoCom obtained a license from Oak Ridge... 

Avecia is a biotechnology company directed to the development and manufacturing of biotechnology based medicines. It is structurally organized in two business units, namely Biologies and DNA Medicines. Its capabilities comprise process development, scale-up, and manufacture of microbial-derived biopharmaceuticals and oligonucleotides. 

The P. patens system is being developed by the German biotechnology company Greenovation Biotech GmbH, which is based in Freiburg. The company has developed transient expression systems that allow feasibility studies, and stable production strains that can be scaled up to several thousand liters. 

The advent of genetic engineering and monoclonal antibody technology underpinned the establishment of literally hundreds of start-up biopharmaceutical (biotechnology) companies in... 

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