his paper contains a warning for investors, executives, analysts and scientists about the sustainability of the biotechnology industry. The study upon which the paper is based examines the impact of market forces on the biotechnology industry and argues that the short-term focus of market driven...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the need in biotechnology to integrate a variety of knowledge bases to build the intellectual asset base of the commercial entity operating in the biotechnology industry. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based upon a single case...

In this paper methods are presented for analysing the kinematics of walking machines using vector and screw algebra. Firstly, displacement analysis is covered; this includes methods for deriving the position vector of any joint in any leg, and for calculating the active joint displacements in any...