The “Entrepreneurial State” and the Leveraging of Life in the Field of Regenerative Medicine

Governments are attempting to create a ‘health and wealth’-generating Regenerative Medicine industry in a manner that aligns with the Entrepreneurial State by supporting innovation -facilitating initiatives. This chapter explores such initiatives in the UK and the values invoked within them. The chapter argues that the power of the Entrepreneurial State in reconfiguring the bioeconomy derives from its capacity to appeal to diverse values, and consequently, mobilize and orientate a range of actors (industry , scientists, clinicians and patients ) into a common project aimed at generating ‘health and wealth’. The chapter reflects on the State’s role in attempting to serve as a broker between public and private good, and in doing so it also highlight some of the tensions and countervailing processes at play within the new health bioeconomy .