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Ernst & Young’s Beyond Borders: Matters of Evidence

Super Session

Hundreds of attendees turned out to glean insights from findings outlined in Ernst & Young LLP’s (EY) 27th annual report on the biotechnology industry – Beyond borders: matters of evidence – officially launched at Tuesday morning’s Super Session at the 2013 BIO International Convention. The report was presented by Glen Giovannetti and Gautam Jaggi of EY’s Global Life Sciences Center, and the Super Session featured a panel of industry leaders, including: Brian Edelman, VP, Corporate Read More >

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Results from the BIO Convention 2013 Meeting Analysis of Therapeutic In/Out Licensors

BIO’s results from the BIO 2013 Convention 1×1 meeting analysis conducted to identify trends and intentions of therapeutic in-licensors and out-licensors were released today. The analysis looked at the meeting activity of 180 in-licensors attending the Chicago conference in terms of what therapeutic areas and stages of development were in highest demand. Of the 804 drug R&D companies, companies in Phase I/Rare Disease came out ahead as a group, with an average of >17 meetings/company. This was followed by Phase Read More >

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Venture Capital Trends

Venture Capital Trends

With industry data and numbers, results are always a mixed bag, says David Thomas, BIO’s Director of Industry Research & Analysis – and the latest on venture capital trends is no exception. In the U.S., biotech VC funding is flat, and start-up money is drying up. According to the National Venture Capital Association (NCVA), U.S. VC funding for biotech fell to $4.1 billion in 2012 (figure 1). This 17% drop was greater than the 10% Read More >

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Finding Biotech in the Silicon Prairie

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The Silicon Prairie is about more than technology companies and Internet start-ups. In fact, the biotech industry in Illinois employs nearly 80,000 people, according to a recent analysis by Battelle, and their salaries are double the salary of the average private sector worker in the state. As biotech executives from across the globe descend upon McCormick Place this week for the annual BIO International Convention, they will have an opportunity to see that the Chicago Read More >

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Opening Up Innovation

Cancer

Open Innovation has become a major theme in the life sciences over the last couple of years. Most of the attention has focused on initiatives where big pharma offers access to non-core assets to outside researchers in the hope that they will develop them successfully or form collaborations. In Sweden, AstraZeneca have followed this path, but interest in the concept has spread further down the discovery chain, generating creative initiatives from universities, tech transfer organizations, Read More >

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