Large companies and home-office entrepreneurs are able to conceive, build, andrapidly distribute apps to suit every existing need and newly imagined niche.
The report suggests that a series of policy changes, including removing immigration barriers for skilled workers and reforming the U.S. corporate tax system, could help U.S. entrepreneurs build their businesses and expand them more rapidly.
"We believe that the combination of Biomatrix's product development expertise and Genzyme's commercialization infrastructure will build significant value more rapidly than each enterprise could achieve on its own, " said Duke Collier, president of Genzyme Surgical Products, in a statement.
Oftentimes, the upfront capital expenditure can be so huge and the margins are small enough (and shrink over time as the component is rapidly commoditized) that the companies who would build these factories cannot raise sufficient investment capital to cover the costs.