- Governments Become Biocapitalists.
More public resources are directed toward boosting biotech firms. An increasing number of federal, state, and local governments around the world are betting that the biotech industry will boost tax revenue, provide jobs, and otherwise create a better future for their constituents. These "biocapitalist" governments are courting and investing in ......
- State confronts growing competition for
biotech.
A panel led by former governors Jim Hunt and Jim Martin released a 54-point plan in February for North Carolina's biotechnology industry. It sets a goal of having 125,000 jobs--a nearly seven-fold increase--by 2023 and calls for a five-year investment by state government of at least $650 million. Leslie Alexandre ......
- State confronts growing competition for biotech
A panel led by former governors Jim Hunt and Jim Martin released a 54-point plan in February for North Carolina's biotechnology industry. It sets a goal of having 125, 000 jobs a nearly seven-fold increase -by 2023 and calls for a five-year in vestment by state government of at least ......
- Despite ailing economy, biotechs remain healthy.
(Pharmaceuticals).
It's only fitting that the Tar Heel industry that seemed inoculated against the virus infecting the economy in 2001 was pharmaceuticals. Spurred partly by the rapid advances in human genomics, the Tar Heel drug industry managed to avoid the big layoffs and bankruptcies that were so common among high-tech companies....
- Biotechnology industry: great leap
forward.
Hawaii's infant biotechnology industry took great leap forward in September with launch of systematic, expert-driven assessment of local industry by leading national biotech trade organization, Washington DC-based Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) together with North Carolina-based consulting firm PMP Public Affairs Consulting. Their final report expected this month, in time for ......
- A new way to train workers: the growing
biopharmaceutical industry needs skilled workers, and community colleges
are training them--through BioNetwork.
North Carolina has been visionary in its approach to pharmaceuticals and biomanufacturing. As a result, it ranks third nationally in biotechnology and is home to many of the world's largest biomanufacturing plants in sectors such as vaccine manufacturing, industrial enzymes, mammalian cell-based biomanufacturing, vaccine-discovery labs, contract research organizations and agricultural ......
- A new way to train workers
North Carolina has been visionary in its approach to pharmaceuticals and biomanufacturing. As a result, it ranks third notionally in biotechnology and is home to many of the world's largest biomanufacturing plants in sectors such as vaccine manufacturing, industrial enzymes, mammalian cellbased biomanufacturing, vaccine-discovery labs, contract research organizations and agricultural ......