The biotechnology industry has been described as a key feature of the new knowledge economy and is expected to impact on the lives of almost everyone. The majority of biotechnology firms are founded by scientists and their organisations are characterised by high human capital density. The focus of this book is on how founders of biotechnology companies organise and build the employment system in their start-up ventures. This book adopts an integrative cognitive methodology in studying the founder’s role in the employment system creation within their new ventures. It sets out to examine the vagaries of building biotechnology ventures around people and sets out a framework for understanding the organisation building process from the entrepreneurs' point of view. Based on an in-depth study of three biotechnology firms and their founders, this book examines the organisation building and human resource strategies of high technology entrepreneurs. In addition, this book explores methodological issues inherent in understanding the cognitions, strategies, and organisation building of high technology entrepreneurs.

Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.