Word: biotech
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...stunning announcement by MIT and Harvard of plans for a $300 million biotech institute, an unprecedented collaboration to unlock the human genome’s medical potential, is a potent reminder that research universities are Boston’s premier economic asset...
...Clone Money PPL Therapeutics, the Scottish biotech firm that cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, announced it would fold after years of losses...
Along with MIT President Charles M. Vest, Summers discussed how to stimulate the state’s biotech industry and to foster a bustling university-industry collaboration along the lines of Northern California’s Silicon Valley to an audience at the Business School’s Hawes Hall...
...Michael Porter, the star economist who Summers tapped to organize the event, said that—despite Massachusetts’ pre-eminence in the life sciences—government, universities and companies need to better leverage their expertise at a time when other regions are feverishly seeking to attract biotech development...
While much of the summit’s language was general, some debate lingered over the particular roles that government should play in affecting growth in the biotech sector...