What is the difference between bioscience, life science, and biotechnology?
Bioscience is the greater subset. Life sciences is bioscience that focuses on helping people – not necessarily just clinical science, but other stuff that relates to human health and disease. Biotechnology is the development of tools for the study of bioscience and/or for facilitating the study and/or practice of life sciences. Like chrismiller mentions, there are a lot more subdivisions as well.
What kldickson said. Bioscience is biological science. This may not be technological at all. A guy walking through the forest counting trees is a biologist, but there may be little tech involved. Life science is the same thing. The term is to distinguish biology from chemistry, physics, etc. (with the caveat that biochem, biophysics, et al may fall under the life-science category) Here’s how Nature Biotechnology (a journal) defines the biotechnology. Also, I’d be wary of relying on numbers you find online as good estimates. There are going to be huge discrepancies based on what jobs they consider for inclusion and what sort of statistics they use for estimation.
