发布报告的机构名称: GLOBAL BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER
报告发布时间:（2008年）
报告页数: 88页
报告的文件格式: pdf
报告大小: 1.1M
简介
The biotechnology industry has humble
roots. Before the founding of Genentech
31 years ago, molecular biology was
a relatively obscure fi eld, where scientists
toiled on work that was deemed academically
interesting, but of little perceived commercial
import. When Herb Boyer and Bob Swanson
teamed up to establish the world’s fi rst
modern biotechnology company, they were
relative unknowns—Boyer a microbiologist
at the University of California, San Francisco
researching arcane prokaryotes, and Swanson
a 27-year-old venture capitalist who had yet
to make his mark. In the years since, countless
other biotech companies have been founded
in similarly humble circumstances—cobbled
together by entrepreneurial scientists and
sustained more on vision and ambition than
commercial experience.