Archive for May, 2009
Mapping RTP's future
Sunday, May 31, 2009, 4:40 pm No Comments | Post a Comment
Science and innovation will continue to drive economic development in the next 20 years, but where the new jobs will spring up is not as clear.
The Internet is emphasizing how researchers work over where they work. To solve scientific puzzles increasingly requires more than one researcher, one lab, or one organization. And in the global recession government is trading places with industry in stepping up investment in research and development.
Complaint: Producers keep prices for blood-based drugs high
Thursday, May 28, 2009, 7:30 pm No Comments | Post a CommentAntitrust regulators alleged in a complaint filed Thursday that the two largest producers of four life-saving medicines made from blood plasma have figured out ways to keep prices high.
Governor wants incentives for entrepreneurs
Thursday, May 28, 2009, 4:10 pm No Comments | Post a CommentGov. Beverly Perdue used a ribbon cutting Thursday to propose state incentives to encourage scientists to become entrepreneurs.
Purdue seized the grand opening of Quintiles Transnational‘s new global headquarters in Durham to talk about a founder’s tax credit and small innovation research grants she said she wants legislators to pass during the ongoing session.
Talecris sale to be blocked
Monday, May 25, 2009, 8:59 pm No Comments | Post a CommentThe $3.1 billion offer for Talecris Biotherapeutics, one of the Triangle’s largest drugmaker, raised antitrust questions from the very beginning.
Chinese biotech company sets up shop in RTP
Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 7:19 pm No Comments | Post a CommentExecutives of a Chinese biotech company flanked former Gov. Jim Hunt at the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences Wednesday, when Hamner executives and Gov. Beverly Perdue announced a deal with the largest medical research park in China.
Gateway to China
Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 2:45 am No Comments | Post a CommentThe Hamner Institutes of Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park has signed a deal that could help North Carolina biotech companies do business in China.
The partnership with China Medical City, a RTP-size research park the Jiangsu provincial government is establishing about three hours north of Shanghai, also aims to bring Chinese investment and jobs to North Carolina.
Molecular time travel
Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 5:22 pm No Comments | Post a CommentIt doesn’t happen very often that two Nobel laureates who research the inner workings of cells speak back-to-back about their work within a few miles of each other.
Offshoring R&D
Monday, May 18, 2009, 5:48 pm No Comments | Post a CommentAnybody who believes jobs in research and development are safe from going to countries with low labor costs, should read Robert Atkinson’s testimony before a congressional subcommittee on technology and innovation.
RTP: Then and now
Sunday, May 17, 2009, 7:09 pm No Comments | Post a CommentOn a Friday afternoon, when traffic is bumper-to-bumper four lanes deep on Interstate 40 from Research Triangle Park to Raleigh, it’s hard to imagine RTP was nothing but scrub pines and possums 50 years ago.
Science jobs: Where are they going?
Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 10:15 am No Comments | Post a CommentAre science jobs about to go the way manufacturing jobs have gone for years, which is to countries with lower labor costs?
It’s a question that more than 700 economic developers, economists, scientists, investors and business executives from around the world will explore at the three-day International Association of Science Parks conference that starts June 1 at the Raleigh Convention Center.
