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