Friday, December 20, 2002
San Francisco, the birthplace of biotech, is -- for the first time -- coming up with a strategy to strengthen its cluster. Read more.Go
This development points to an interesting insight about clusters...they emerge naturally. (How they come about is the subject of some interesting work on the theory of emergence, and here's a good book on the the topic. A closely related notion is that networks represent the dominant organizing principle as to how the world actually works.)
So, it's interesting to see that biotech development in San Francisco is becoming an explicit strategy. Most of the effort, it appears, is focused on marketing.
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Building biotech in San Francisco
