This is the sort of project which might attract those longed-for clusters of science and biotechnology research companies.
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What the new company will lack is the kind of basic science in which most biotechnology companies specialize.
According to Collaborative Economics, a local consultancy, its workforce is now distributed among at least seven different industries, including biotechnology and environmental science.
It's the impact of a Health and Human Services Department that funds research by women like Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a biotechnology and life science pioneer -- (applause) -- who won the National Medal of Science in 2006.
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These and other special projects, such as Havana's biotechnology complex and computer-science university, have been transferred to relevant ministries.
In doing it, he is giving physicists a taste of a kind of science that has become commonplace in the biotechnology industry.
But, in a classic biotechnology story, DeCode had trouble turning its science into a business.
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Nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and cognitive science are all converging technologies.
Like the biotechnology of the 1970s, geoengineering cannot be treated just as science-as-usual.
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.
On June 26, 1986, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy published a policy statement called the Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology.
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Allen began thinking about a big neuro-science project in the late 1990s, while he was making a flurry of investments in Seattle biotechnology companies.
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As it has with new markets ranging from biotechnology to the Internet, government would help to create the underlying policy infrastructure and science that leads to new markets, without spending big money to subsidize the industry itself.
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DuPont de Nemours is involved in science and technology in a range of disciplines including high-performance materials, specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.
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