Category Archives: Industry Watching

Industry watching: Patent pools and joint ventures

In an article in the Motley Fool, Brian Orelli writes about how Pharma is Reworking the R&D model. He writes that unlike other industries competition in the biopharma industry may not be a good thing. Given the uncertainties, long time scales, cost, and ultimate role of drug makers, I do not disagree. [...]
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Industry watching: Biotech finally makes a profit

Image by Getty Images via Daylife 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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