Some biotech entrepreneurs wonder if big firms with interests in both agricultural biotechnology and conventional pesticides could ever be persuasive advocates of the new science that their smaller peers are developing, since it could well undermine sales of their most popular chemicals.

ECONOMIST: Biotechnology

Is the conventional wisdom that there are huge payoffs to more emphasis on the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math) correct?

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