Science, the State and the City
Owen, Geoffrey (Visiting Professor, Visiting Professor, Department of Management, London School of Economics) / Hopkins, Michael M. (Senior Lecturer and Director of Research, Senior Lecturer and Director of Research, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex)
The book is about the link between science and business - how discoveries made in academic laboratories are taken up by venture capitalists and investors, and converted into products which, if they are successful, provide treatments for disease and may generate substantial returns for investors.