Public and Proprietary Knowledge in Biotechnology: An Historical and Sociological Analysis of First Generation Recombinant DNA Pharmaceuticals Development

20世纪80年代的“生物技术革命”是一个形成时期，它确定了大学生命科学和商业之间联系的目前模式。因此，对最近这一关键事件中公共科学知识和专有科学知识之间不断变化的边界进行更清晰的分析，将为当今大学科学的社会作用提供有价值的见解。除了科学政策和社会学的问题，这种更准确的科学举措，商业战略，以及与第一批生物技术公司之间的大学的关系也可能有助于商业奖学金，旨在促进生命科学领域的成功。

The 'biotechnology revolution' of the 1980s was a formative period that set the present pattern of links between university life science and commerce. A clearer analysis of the shifting boundary between public and proprietary scientific knowledge in this key recent episode will thus provide valuable insight into the social role of university-based science today. In addition to matters of science policy and sociology, this more accurate account of the scientific initiatives, commercial strategies, and relationships with universities among the first biotechnology firms may also contribute to business scholarship aiming to foster success in the life science sector.