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What is the State of Canada’s Biotechnology Industry?
There have been a lot of opinions over the last couple of weeks, with little consensus. On the pessimistic side: E&Y’s annual biotechnology report was released a week ago, and the reported taglines...
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Trends Update — IP Constituencies: China Moves to Boost Biotechnology
An announcement by the State Council in China that was picked up by Fierce Biotech yesterday touted $9.2 billion in technology spending that will include biotech and genetically modified products (as...
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Scientific American and BIO worldVIEW Scorecard: A Global Biotechnology Ranking
Scientific American gathered and crunched a large amount of data to try to generate an objective, empirical ranking of 36 different countries’ biotechnology output and potential. Here’s the special...
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Flow-Through Shares for Cleantech and Biotech in Canada
Rick Sutin, a partner at Ogilvy Renault (my home-away-from-home), has a post up at Cleantech in Canada singing the praises of flow-through shares. So far, the flow-through program in Canada has been...
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Relocation, Relocation, Relocation: Biotech Incentives and Economic Development
Despite the skepticism expressed in the New York Times article last week, the efforts by various jurisdictions to attract biotech business continues apace. For one, the Mayor of Jerusalem announced a...
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New Data Shows 70% of Canada’s Biotech Companies Have Under 12 Months’ Cash....
A Canwest story today highlights new BIOTECanada data showing 70% of survey respondents have under 1 year of cash, up from 50% in January. FierceBiotech picked it up as well, guaranteeing a full dose...
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Do the Q2 Venture Capital Numbers plus the HGS Success Indicate a Light at...
Many of the articles and talks on biotech funding over the past year or so have lamented that public markets are closed to biotechs, and that the absence of a public exit, coupled with the preference...
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This Week in the Twitterverse: August 8, 2009
Since I’ve been using Twitter to note short but interesting items that don’t require a whole blog post, I thought I’d post a re-cap of the week’s Tweets. So, for those who aren’t on Twitter and...
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TBI Mentorship Program Announced
I’ve been working on the committee developing a new mentorship program for life sciences professionals in Ontario. The formal launch will coincide with National Biotechnology Week in September....
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Current Data on the State of Biotech in Canada
Equicom published a report recently that takes a comprehensive look back at 2009 at the Canadian public healthcare sector. Here’s the link to the press release, which has the headline numbers and a...
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