EDITORIAL INFORMATION

1996 sees the UK biotechnology community at a crucial point in its development. Biotechnology is growing annually by 30 % and will reach an estimated world wide value of £60 billion by the year 2000. In addition to this, many new market sectors are beginning to show an interest in biotechnology as a means for improving their profits and expanding their businesses.

There is an emerging awareness about biotechnology within the textiles, leather, oil and gas extraction, paper, petroleum refining, engineering and construction sectors. They are beginning to see biotechnology as a means of enhancing their businesses and as a vehicle for improving their competitive advantage.

(Extracted from the Foreword).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-PART ONE:

-Foreword.

-The Department of Trade and Industry's Biotechnology Means Business Initiative.

-Food.

-Specialised Organics.

-Textile and Clothing Industries.

-Waste Treatment.

-Status and Prospects for a Crop Biotechnology in Europe.

-European Funding for Research in Biotechnology.

-How to Finance a Biotech Start-Up.

-EASDAQ, A Market for Growth Companies.

-Flexible Human Resources for Biotech Start-Ups.

-Recording the Changes in US Patent Practice.

-PART TWO:

-Foreword.

-Manufacturers and Suppliers.

-Service Providers.

-Financial Services.

-Academic Institutions.

-Government Agencies.

-INDEXES:

-Index to Organizations.

-Index to Products and Services.

-Index of Areas of Interest.

-Appendix: Entry Form for Next Edition.

OUR REVIEW

This directory is a must for any company or firm in the sector of biotechnology, most specially if your activity takes you to the British market. Its great amount of pages, DinA4 sized as they are, contain around a thousand references to enterprises, plus other additional ones offering interesting data. Each reference includes the address, the telephone number, fax and email of the firm - plus other data, besides a text where the history of the firm and complementary information are summarized, and also several additional paragraphs that, among other things, indicate names of management personnel and section heads, so as to facilitate the contact with the most suitable department of the company.

The compilation of so much specialized information, having a high strategic commercial value, reveals an impressive amount of work on the part of the publishers. Special care has been taken in the summarizing of all possible data in a rather reduced space. Anyway, there is the sufficient elasticity in the extension of each file as to allow for the inclusion of long texts if the activity of the company makes such thing necessary.

To buy certain books is to make a highly profitable investment. And this is a clear example. Every firm related to biotechnology and nearing fields who owns this guide will have the entire British biotechnological industry within telephone reach.