INDUSTRIAL BIOTECH GAINS MOMENTUM

Structural Change in the Biotech Seed and Chemical Industrial Complex

five years by the “coming of age” of agricultural biotechnology. Perhaps a more appropriate metaphor would be the birth and the preschool years of the first set of commercial products from recombinant DNA technology. We have witnessed much laboratory development, field testing, and seeking of regulatory approval in the United States (U.S.) and abroad in the last decade. Finally, the first signi...

South Africa's battle against HIV/AIDS gains momentum.

The Convergence of Information and Communication Technologies Gains Momentum

IVAN HUANG ROC GUO HARRY XIE ZHENGXIANG WU Huawei Technologies In the past few years, the boundaries between information technology (IT)—which refers to hardware and software used to store, retrieve, and process data—and communications technology (CT)—which includes electronic systems used for communication between individuals or groups—have become increasingly indistinguishable. The rapid conv...

When Do SMEs Benefit from E-Commerce in an Industrial Cluster? Evidence from a Biotech Cluster1

1 We are grateful to Roskilde University, which provided support for this project. A considerable literature has focused on the critical role of business and industrial clusters found in cities and regions as drivers of any nations' economic health (Breschi & Malerba, much of this work, the emphasis is on the way in which clusters of firms in common industries benefit from geographic co-locatio...

Questionnaire for a Biotech

How and when did your company start, and where are you located? NovaDigm was founded in 2005 by a group of investigators at the los Angeles Biomedical research institute (lA BioMed) and the Division of infectious Diseases at Harbor-UclA Medical center. The company received its first venture capital funding from Domain Associates in 2008 and established its corporate headquarters and laboratory ...