A biotech manager's handbook lays out - in a simple, straightforward manner - for the manager or would-be entrepreneur the basic principles of running a biotech company. Most managers in biotechnology companies are working in their first company or in their first managerial role. Their expertise and experience in the scientific part of the work can be taken as a given but there is a whole range of other skills to be learned and areas of expertise to come to terms with. Small companies do not have big budgets to hire people or time to become an expert in so many areas. The book starts by outlining the state of the biopharmaceutical industry and goes on to explain the importance of planning (no matter what the size of the company). Succeeding chapters deal with the basics of intellectual property, perspectives from a university technology transfer office and how to raise some initial funding from an investor and entrepreneur.About the Author: Dr. Michael O'Neill has had a career of more than 20 years working in neuroscience research in the pharmaceutical industry. His career has given him an expert knowledge of neuroscience balanced with a strong grasp of strategic principles of drug discovery and development. Dr. O'Neill is an accomplished research leader with extensive program and portfolio management experience. He has lead specialist and multidisciplinary teams in the UK, Europe and in the US. As a consultant, Dr. O'Neill has helped companies of all sizes from university start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Michael Hopkins is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex's Science Policy Research Unit and a Visiting Research Fellow at Cass Business School, UK. He specializes in the study of innovation systems related to innovations in healthcare, spanning public and private sectors, products (e.g. drugs) and services (e.g. diagnostic testing).