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Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access originally published online on December 4, 2007
Journal of Economic Geography 2008 8(2):265-266; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbm047
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Growth Cultures: the global bioeconomy and its bioregions

Philip Cooke

Growth Cultures: the global bioeconomy and its bioregions
Philip Cooke
London: Routledge, 2007.
ISBN 978-0-415-39223-5 (Hardcover),
284 pp. Price: $150.

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

As a consequence of reviewing books for journals, I now read acknowledgements and prefaces with a degree of interest that is perhaps unwarranted by normal standards, but which I have found increasingly important when seeking to understand what has inspired scholars in their work and how they develop their ideas. This is especially evident in Phil Cooke's new book Growth Cultures that brings together several years worth of research on the bioeconomy—as the commercial exploitation of the life sciences is now commonly defined. It is well worth reading the preface to this volume to ground the rest of the book in the evolving thinking about this important ‘industry’.

Growth Cultures collects together in one volume much of Cooke's prolific output from the late 1990s onwards . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Kean Birch

Centre for Public Policy for Regions, University of Glasgow


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