Bioentrepreneurship in Agricultural Biotechnology

The agricultural biotechnology sector shares a common scientific foundation with the therapeutic biotechnology sector, including similar characteristics of a lengthy time to market for emerging products. But the challenges, goals, and opportunities for agricultural applications of biotechnology provide a very different context for innovation and entrepreneurs. Innovation means something novel, which can be a process or a way of doing something novel. Biotechnology entrepreneurship is summing all integrated activities that can create, develop, and finally, commercialize a biotechnology product. These sectors offer new business opportunities that, like agricultural biotechnology trait creation, enable entrepreneurs to think about creating disruptive businesses, not just disruptive technologies for today's business models. In this chapter, the authors conclude the unique aspects of entrepreneurship in the industry of biotechnology in contract with other industries and also discuss the importance of biotechnology entrepreneurs in agriculture.

Stability of human recombinant AIMP1/Р43 protein in nanocomposite complex with beta-cyclodextrin

Stability of the recombinant AIMP1/p43 protein – component of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase complex of higher eukaryotic – in nanocomposite complex with β-cyclodextrin was investigated. A significant increase in thermal stability AIMP1/p43 in the composition of nanocomposite complex was shown. The local conformational transition associated with the exposure of Trp271 residue on the AIMP1/p43 surface was observed at 43 0 C, but in the nanocomposite complex it was observed at 52 0 C. Stabilization of AIMP1/p43 protein in nanocomposite complex provides opportunities for further structural and functional studies and its use as a new biotechnology product in biomedicine.

Embedding Employability into the Curriculum: An Enterprise Based Module for the Biosciences

Leeds Beckett University identified three interlinking graduate attributes which, during a curriculum redesign, were embedded into every course at all levels. This paper describes how a final year module was designed to develop enterprise and employability skills. The students worked in self-selected small groups to devise a new biotechnology product or social enterprise scheme. The assessment comprised a group presentation (which was peer reviewed), an individual report and a written reflection of the process.