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In this thought-provoking book, leading experts explore why international entrepreneurship is important to the life sciences industry. From multi-disciplinary and cross-national perspectives, they question why international entrepreneurship scholars might usefully invest interest in research focused on one specific industry context. -- The book addresses contemporary challenges of relevance to life science firms and draws on leading-edge debates in international entrepreneurship research. Topics include: the nature of the born-global firm; the development of international capabilities and competencies; the role of local and international partnerships and alliances; competitiveness, opportunity recognition and orientation; and the role of specialized complementary assets in internationalization. It concludes by proposing an agenda for future research across the underpinning fields of innovation, entrepreneurship and internationalization. -- This book will prove a stimulating read for academics, students and researchers with an interest in international business, management and entrepreneurship, as well as for practitioners in the health professions or life sciences academics who are, or may become, entrepreneurs.

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), under mandate from the federal government, supports the high level of science research in Switzerland by funding scientific projects and scientists' careers across all disciplines.

Arnhart's "Aristotle's Biopolitics: A Defense of Biological Teleology against Biological Nihilism" is both a valuable and yet at the same time a problematic study. Its value for political science lies in Arnhart's reminder that for many of the most important thinkers in the history of Western political thought their efforts to discover and articulate the principles of a political order necessarily presupposed a specific understanding of the order of nature itself. Given this, the fundamental political challenge of the modern scientific and industrial revolutions not only includes the new instruments and techniques of organization and manipulation made possible by the discoveries of modern science, but also those cultural and intellectual assumptions which create that very environment within which such instruments and techniques first became possible. In illustrating this intimate relationship between modern natural science and modern political science, Grant (1976:124) has written: "What calls out for recognition here is that the same apprehension of what it is to be 'reasonable' leads men to build computers and to conceive the universal and homogenous society as the highest political goal. The ways such machines can be used must be at one with certain conceptions of political purposes because the same kind of 'reasoning' made the machines and formulated the purposes. To put the matter extremely simply, the modern physical sciences and the modern political sciences have developed in mutual interpenetration, and we can only begin to understand that interpenetration in terms of some common source from which both forms of science found their sustenance."

Life science and biotechnology have become a top priority in research and development in many countries as the world marches into the new century. China as a developing country with a 1.3 billion population and booming economy is actively meeting the challenge of a new era in this area of research. Owing to support from the government and the scientific community, and reform to improve the infrastructure, recent years have witnessed a rapid progress in some important fields of life science and biotechnology in China, such as genomics and protein sciences, neuroscience, systematics, super-hybrid rice research, stem cell and cloning technology, gene therapy and drug/vaccine development. The planned expansion and development of innovation in related sectors and the area of bioethics are described and discussed.

1. Human and object, subject and thing : the troublesome nature of human biological material (HBM) / Cecily Palmer -- 2. Substances of the body : blood, genes, and personhood / Malin Noem Ravn -- 3. Governing risk through informed choice : prenatal testing in welfarist maternity care / Mianna Meskus -- 4. Visualizing and calculating life : matters of fact in the context of prenatal risk assessment / Nete Schwennesen and Lene Koch -- 5. Serious disease as kinds of living / Ayo Wahlberg -- 6. From society to molecule and back : the contested scale of public health science / Susanne Bauer -- 7. Life beyond information : contesting life and the body in history and molecular biology / Adam Bencard -- 8. The place and space of research work : studying control in a bioscience laboratory / Amrita Mishra -- 9. Almost human : scientific and popular strategies for making sense of 'missing links' / Murray Goulden and Andrew S. Balmer.

In comparison with other European countries, Switzerland is very well positioned in terms of research funding and output thanks to a large part to the approx. 7 billion CHF annually with which the Swiss Federal Government funds education, research and innovation.

Zusammenfassung
Was ist Wunderlichkeit? Ausgehend von neurotischen Übersprungshandlungen oder Ticks zeigt sich wunderliches Verhalten als Riss in ansonsten perfekten Persone. Die statuarische Körper-Maske bricht auf (vgl. Michel Serres) und weist auf ein dynamischeres Konzept von Leben und Körper hin als das gegenwärtig vorherrschend medial dargestellte (vgl. Georges Canguilhem). Sind Freaks of Nature dann nicht der Normalfall? - Was, wenn Wunderlichkeit wiederum strategisch eingesetzt wird?

Using animals for scientific research is a highly contentious issue that Continental philosophers engaging with 'the animal question' have been rightly accused of shying away from. Now, Wahida Khandker asks, can Continental approaches to animality and organic life make us reconsider our treatment of non-human animals? By following its historical and philosophical development, Khandker argues that the concept of 'pathological life' as a means of understanding organic life as a whole plays a pivotal role in refiguring the human-animal distinction. Key Features * Looks at the assumptions underpinning about debates about science and animals, and our relation to non-human animals *Analyses the relation between the purpose and limitations of research in the life sciences and the concepts of animality and organic life that the sciences have historically employed *Explores the significance of key thinkers such as Bergson, Canguilhem, Foucault and Haraway, and opens up the complex and difficult writings of Alfred North Whitehead on this subject