Similarly in business, if a senior biopharma executive was forced every day to step through even of fraction of the actual complexityof the science associated with every product, it would be overwhelming, and make decision-making all but impossible.
After discovering the complexityof some of the science involved, Robert Jones, a United States district judge in Portland, decided that he was out of his depth and convened his own independent panel of experts, paid for by the lawyers for both sides.
The biotech space is the one sector where early-stage winners are difficult to find because of the complexityof the medical breakthroughs that young life-science companies are trying to achieve.