Schlagwort: Biotechnology
Part II: The Best Asset Doesn’t Have a Passport
For many years, Western biotech companies viewed China primarily as a manufacturing base and, increasingly, as an attractive commercial market. Today, that perspective is...
The Biotech IP Flip: Scaling Up Instead of Selling
Many European biotech companies still view the U.S. market primarily as a future exit channel. Yet it can be leveraged much earlier - not...
It’s time to focus on cardiovascular diseases!
To no one’s surprise, the oncology sector dominates the top deals in biopharma year by year. The industry simply ‘knows’ how to develop novel...
Where generalists and technical specialists meet
Big, multi-stage generalist funds like Sand Hill Road and new-age, technical, science-led specialist investors like Revent have one thing in common: when it comes...
Can biopharma’s drug-focused R&D strategy remain profitable?
Since the 1990s, there has been a shift in focus within pharmaceutical R&D. It resulted in placing greater emphasis on areas such as cancer,...
Biosolutions und Biomanufacturing
Trotz vieler Fortschritte bei der Implementierung der industriellen Biotechnologie hat sich der Begriff „Bioökonomie“ bisher nicht als blockbusterfähig erwiesen. Seit Kürzerem verbreiten sich aber...
More than just sugar
The challenges of climate change affect all industries and companies of all sizes. More and more enterprises are actively addressing the requirements of a...
Invest in the forgotten half of the harvest
The Supplant Company upcycles agricultural side-streams into replacements for the world’s most pervasive ingredients, such as refined sugar and starch, with their proprietary biotechnology-based...
“Lots of small events mounted up – and threw us into a roller coaster...
Leipzig-based start-up ScobyTec produced very thick (approximately 50-mm) non-woven materials from bacterial nanocellulose (BNC), serving as semi-finished goods and staging material for imitation leather,...
Out now: Circular Bioeconomy 2023
Advancing the circular bioeconomy!
The global circular bioeconomy is picking up speed, despite – or perhaps precisely because of – today’s escalating ecological crises, energy...