Category Archives: Industry Watching
Industry watching: Biotech finally makes a profit
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In Science Business, a book that I am going to revisit to do a better job of talking about innovation in the biotech industry, Gary Pisano talks about the lack of profitability in the biotech industry (assuming the formation of Genentech as the day the industry was formed). He [...]
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Industry watching: The new life science software company
The other day I had the chance to visit a life science software company which I found really cool. I won’t mention the company’s name or what they do, but they seem to be the kind of company I often talk around these parts and have for a long time.
First of all they run [...]
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A new product for modeling cell signaling
Image via WikipediaI am slowly winding down blogging for the year. The goal is to spend the last couple of weeks changing hosts, upgrading blogs, etc. For now, here’s another post
Via Bioinform (sub reqd), I found Plectix Biosystems, a company in Massachusetts that just launched its first product, which consists of a web-based [...]
Also posted in Informatics, Modeling & Simulation 6 Comments
Industry watching: Is this the end?
One wouldn’t have been able to tell looking at the huge Supercomputing booth, but SGI has been struggling for years. The company, whose machines were the mainstay of computational science, especially life science back in the day, and got this blogger through grad school, might just be on its final legs. Today, they [...]
Also posted in Computing 5 Comments
Industry watching: Patent pools and joint ventures