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Interested in a sales career in Biotechnology? Do you know about the technology and the roles available?

Biotechnology is more of an enabling technology than an industrial sector. It is the application of knowledge about living organisms and their components, to industrial products and processes.

The UK has companies actively developing and exploiting biotechnology across the whole breadth of it's application: from pharmaceuticals and diagnostics, through speciality chemicals, food and agriculture, to the environment. As such, bio-technology companies are frequently involved in strategic alliances, or taken over by other industries who are cash rich and seeking new/additional products.

In medicine, biotechnology is used at all stages:

To prevent the need for medical treatment (e.g., gene therapy, early intervention, vaccines);
To understand disease processes;
To discover and test new drugs and treatments;
To detect and diagnose diseases, predispositions to them and drug susceptibility;
To manufacture therapeutic and diagnostic products;
To treat specific conditions

The UK leads Europe in the industrial exploitation of biotechnology. The UK has approximately 300 dedicated biotechnology companies and a further 250-300 involved in broader bioscience related activities (19,000 employees and 22,000 employed respectively). Many of them are small enterprises with around 1-5 employees.

The UK’s bioscience GDP and employment are clustered in regions. The most developed are: the North West, where there is a bio-medical research base (Manchester-Liverpool); Cambridge, Oxford and the rest of the South East; Scotland (particularly the Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh); and the Eastern Region, which is strong in agricultural research, e.g. John Innes Institute. There are also good clusters in the North East and South West of England as well as London, which attained two thirds of all bio-science research funding.

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