The current study presents an evaluation of the laboratory instructional tasks prepared based on innovative teaching approaches (research-inquiry, problem solving, project, argumentation and web-based interdisciplinary learning approaches) designed to enhance science teachers’ biotechnology knowledge, awareness and laboratory experiences. The laboratory instructional tasks developed by the researchers aim to improve the laboratory experiences, as well as support the teaching of biotechnology through innovative teaching approaches (research-inquiry, problem solving, project, argumentation and web-based interdisciplinary learning approaches). In this context, the effect of the laboratory tasks developed on the basis of the innovative teaching approaches on science teachers’ biotechnology knowledge, awareness and laboratory experiences was investigated.

The standards specify the knowledge and skills common to occupations in the biotechnology research and development pathway. Biotechnology R & D Pathway encompasses: Standard 1: Contributions of Biotechnology to health and the human condition; Standard 2: Academic Foundations; Standard 3: Introduction to Biotechnology Knowledge Areas and Techniques; Standard 4: Laboratory Protocols and Procedures; Standard 5: Product Design and Development; and Standard 6: Bioethics.

A representation of how the production and application of knowledge works in biotechnology innovation system. The general aim of this contribution is to elaborate a benchmarking concept from a systems perspective to provide policy-makers with a set of tools that will assist them in their policy-making regarding biotechnology. These are tools to map national policy in biotechnology; tools that facilitate monitoring of dynamic changes of policy portfolios; a set of output indicators reporting the achievement of certain policy goals set in previous years. It exploits the benchmarking approach to describe the innovation process in biotechnology by considering policy activity in biotech innovation system: knowledge base, knowledge transfer and exploitation, the market and the industry.

This paper provides a brief rationale for the inclusion of biotechnology in technology education, a definition of biotechnology, a structure of the content area, and an overview of pertinent learning theory. The most of the discussion focuses on an approach to biotechnology instruction that employs elements of the teaching and learning; principles found in behavioural, cognitive, and constructivist theories. It also discusses the blend of learning theory that supports the delivery of biotechnology content in the technology education through biotechnology activities that encompass learning about both the biological process and its technological application.

This paper presents the results of investigation of teachers' awareness, informational, personal, management, consequences, collaboration, and refocusing concerns about biotechnology teaching by employing a qualitative design that allowed for the emergence of teachers' ideas. It includes supporting teacher development of biotechnology content knowledge and promoting strategies for obtaining, storing and managing biotechnology equipment and materials. The study explores how science teachers approach biotechnology education and the concerns they have for doing so as a means of developing an empirical basis for informing efforts to more systematically integrate biotechnology in science learning experiences.

This study presents the recent trends in the evolution of modern biotechnology education as a part of the changing nature of science education. It examines the adoption and the implementation processes for biotechnology education and proposes an evidence-based biotechnology professional development model for science educators that considers all of the key components of science professional development that are outlined in the literature. The model recognizes and addresses the content knowledge, practical skills, pedagogical knowledge and curriculum management components.

This study examined the usefulness of co-teaching with research and development (R&D) professionals to integrate real world research experience into an Engineering Biotechnology course. This research suggests that the need to expose students to post-graduate engineering careers and to prepare them to enter real world engineering is crucial. Two sessions were team-taught by the course lecturer in collaboration with two R&D professionals from local industries. The course lecturer covered the theoretical parts, whereas practicing R&D engineers exposed students to current R&D works. Quantitative and qualitative data on the usefulness of the co-teaching sessions were collected from students and R&D professionals’ surveys, a student interview and peer observation feedback. It was found that bringing R&D professionals into the Engineering Biotechnology class positively impacted on students’ learning. A comparison was also made between the two co-teaching sessions. The evidence showed that managing the lecture and deliverables, and dividing the tasks along the lines of expertise is the key to providing a successful co-teaching session.

This paper aims to explore the R&D collaboration networks between the universities and the other actors in the biotechnology sectoral innovation system to understand how universities make use of knowledge exchanged with other parties to shape society while developing emerging industries. The finding of this paper sheds light on the changing role of academia in developing emerging technologies in technology followers, while the innovation ecosystem is ready for academia-industry collaboration; universities not only take charge of disseminating knowledge but also serve as the major intermediaries in the process of commercialising science and technologies developed through the universities. In fact, the biotechnology industry has been widely considered as a high-tech sector, which can be traded in various stages of the R&D process.

This OECD report summarises the results of in-depth studies, providing a comparative analysis of participating countries' performance in science and innovation in biopharmaceuticals. It highlights specific characteristics of the national biopharmaceutical innovation systems in terms of their international openness and the specific role of demand-side factors in the innovation process. Major systemic failures affecting the functioning of the biopharmaceutical innovation systems are identified. Based on rich evidence, the report draws policy recommendations to foster innovation in biopharmaceuticals advocating an integrated policy approach.

This study forms part of a larger effort to compare innovation processes in different industry sectors and technological fields to provide policy guidance and to more fully elaborate the national innovation systems (NIS) approach to policy making.

This chapter of European competitiveness report, 2001 reviews the state of innovation and production systems in European biotechnology and, in particular, its innovative capacity. It reviews the recent evolution of industrial biotechnology in Europe and the contribution of the new DBFs that entered the industry during the 1990s. The report provides a detailed analysis of R&D activities and research collaborations of European biotechnology companies and analyses the essential features of biotechnology clusters in Europe and the position of European biotechnology firms in the context of the international division of labour within the field. The document reviews as well the institutional, legal, and cultural factors that have an impact on the evolution and performances of the biotechnology industry and surveys the adoption of biotechnology by large European firms.

This book explores how policies targeting public research institutions, such as universities, contribute to the appropriation of biotechnology through national innovation systems. Around the world, biotechnology has become a driving force for dramatic change in systems and policies intended to spur innovation. The leading contributors expertly construct a detailed picture of policy approaches that support biotechnology and how such approaches work under different economic and social conditions. They also provide an insight into the role of universities in this process. Researchers, academics, students, policy advisors, decision-makers, and other professionals involved in the fields of biotechnology, innovation systems, higher education, and development will find this book an invaluable resource. In this book, one can look at how actors in the biotech field organize themselves in order to facilitate cooperation and appropriation of biotech results as well as how these strategies translate into public policy.

This paper discusses new trends in tertiary education that are gaining in importance which include the following: open distance learning, internet, virtual universities, corporate universities, franchise universities, academic brokering, collaborations of universities, consortiums and clusters and university outreach programmes. It discusses certain new trends in educational systems, which are gaining importance and offer various options to address the issues in disseminating knowledge of biotechnology. It makes comparison between traditional academic activity and outreach activity for developing knowledge systems with emphasis on their key elements: enablers, environment and learning.

This paper explores the often-overlooked area of the relationship between biotech firms’ internationalization strategy, research and development (R&D) intensity, and sustainable earnings. The analysis of the relationship between the international strategies and sustainable earnings of biotech firms grounded on 29,583 firm-year observations in South Korea between 2000 and 2017 reveals the association between internationalization strategy and sustainable earnings. It proved that internationalization strategy has a negative impact on biotech firms, while the impact of international strategy on sustainable earnings of a biotech firm is observed to be positively influenced by R&D intensity. This study contributes to the research on the determinants of sustainable earnings by empirically proving that biotech firms’ internationalization strategy with high R&D investments leads to an increase in earnings sustainability.

This is a report - an outcome of a seminar where a number of social science studies of biotechnology were presented. The report provides a general description of the approaches applied by social scientists to the development of new technologies, incl. biotechnologies. From different perspectives - and applying a variety of methods, the presentations touch upon different social aspects of biotechnological knowledge production. The first cluster of presentations is focused on the perception of modern biotechnology amongst different segments of society. The second cluster of presentations is concerned with economic aspects of biotechnology, or more narrowly, with the behaviour of private companies within this field of research. The third cluster of presentations is concerned with the measurable - and non-measurable - impact of biotechnology on society.