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Companies must turn to effective process development as a competitive weapon in agricultural biotechnology.
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I would like to thank Alan Blower, Elizabeth Earle, and Peggy Lemaux for reviewing the manuscript and for their helpful comments. I am is grateful to Gary Pisano for allowing me to borrow heavily from his book The Development Factory.
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McElroy, D. Moving agbiotech downstream. Nat Biotechnol 17, 1071–1074 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/15054
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