22. In 2009, Exxon Mobil
bought Synthetic Genomics
in order to produce biofuels
made out of algaes
23. In the health sector, innovation is
transfered to clinical startups
and smaller biotech company
24. “82% of surveyed executives believe big pharma
will be unable to innovate sufficiently from within to
replace blockbuster drugs going off-patent.”
(survey by Marks & Clerck)
25. Investments in the biotech industry
amounted 55,8 billions dollars US
in 2009
(+85% year on year)
26. Biocamp
Novartis sponsors a annual program inspired from
the IT industry, to boost entrepreneurship
within the community of PhD’s in Life Sciences
28. News website Huffington
Post ahead of all major
US newspapers, but the
NYT. Content mainly
comes from lead
bloggers
French daily
Le Monde gets
15% of its viewers
in the web from
its blog platform
LePost.fr