
Bayer Studies Options for Mission Bay Open Innovation Center, Incubator
The San Francisco Business Times website reported that drug maker Bayer HealthCare is considering moving its R&D operations out of San Francisco’s Mission Bay, but company officials said its “innovation center” and CoLaborator incubator for a handful of young companies will remain in the Bay Area. The news comes as Bayer and Berkeley
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What’s Driving the Boom in Early Stage Biotech Funding?
The LabTech website noted that J&J Innovation is one of the many investors that are turning their gaze to the promise of early-stage research. J&J Innovation is following a strategy focusing on supporting ‘open innovation’, an approach that they believe could work where the traditional
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MetLife Joins the MIT Media Lab
The Digital Journal website reported that MetLife has established a multi-year collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focused on accelerating innovative technologies that will transform the insurance industry. The announcement furthers MetLife’s innovation approach of bringing
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Europe has Untapped Medical Innovation
The PharmaPhorum website noted that the ‘open innovation’ strategy is being pursued by all the big pharma companies – and now it’s simply a matter of who executes best on this approach. This is one of the boldest efforts in big pharma to create relationships with entrepreneurs, scientists and
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Plan to set up Innovation Centers in India
The Hindu website reported that the Chairman of the Innovation Society of Andhra Pradesh, J.A. Chowdary, said there are plans to set up an International Institute of Digital Technology in Tirupati and an Innovation and Technology Park in Andhra University. The mentorship program for Smart Village Open
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