From Breakthrough to Blockbuster

by Donald L. Drakeman, Lisa N. Drakeman, Nektarios Oraiopoulos

2022 · Oxford University Press

From Breakthrough to Blockbuster: The Business of Biotechnology tells the astonishing story of how the biotech industry grew to thousands of small companies around the world, competing with the major pharmaceutical companies that had dominated for a century, and how academic research, venture capital, and contract research organizations worked together to support them.