The Journal of Commercial Biotechnology

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Content and Logistics of this Special Edition on Building and Leveraging Ecosystems and Clusters

Arthur Boni

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addressed the global media: “WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock

Building and leveraging the innovation ecosystem and clusters: universities, startups, accelerators, alliances, and partnerships

Arthur Boni

This article focuses on the concepts of ecosystems and clusters, with an emphasis on their importance for building vibrant a vibrant and life science/biopharma industry. We illustrate the

What Corporates Can Do to Help an Innovation Ecosystem Thrive -- and Why They Should Do It

Diana Joseph

Given the pace of change in nearly every aspect of society, transformative innovation is imperative. At the same time transformation is very difficult for large established companies. Ope

Thought Leader Insights on Innovation Ecosystems and Clusters

Moira Gunn

This article provides short, “book reviews” and selected comments on recent, popular books that focused on ecosystems and clusters. They include: AnnaLee Saxenian (refl

Creating Communities of Life Science Innovation in the US: History of Critical Factors That Helped the BioHealth Capital Region Emerge

Brian Darmody

Advancements in biotechnology are recognized as one of the most important scientific achievements of the 20^th Century. The emergence of biotechnology profoundly impacted

A Tale in Three Parts: The Success of California’s Life Science Clusters

Joe Panetta

With the seventh largest GDP in the world, California has the economic heft of a country. One of the largest drivers of economic growth in California is the life science industry. In fact

Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley: A Geographically Distributed and Expanding Life Science Ecosystem

Dennis Gross

Philadelphia has been considered by many to be the birthplace of the modern US pharmaceutical industry with Merck & Co. Inc.’s research division Merck Research Labs [originally call

Transforming Pittsburgh’s Economic Ecosystem and Clusters

Dennis Yablonsky

The Pittsburgh region’s recovery and transformation from an economy dominated by heavy industry to a balanced and diversified economy throughout the region has been documented by many p

Australian Biotechnology: Promissory Expectations and Ecosystem Performance far From the Global Superclusters

Peter Molloy

Australia is an interesting case study of biotechnology ecosystem development. Despite its distance from the US biotechnology superclusters, the country has had high expectations for its

A New Vision for Europe’s Bioeconomy in a Post-COVID World

Susan Finston

In response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the European Commission (EC) provided inclusive leadership, working as a team including EU member (national) officials, biopharmaceutical indu

The U.S. National Institutes of Health – Founding A National Biomedical “Innovation Ecosystem”

Steven M. Ferguson

With its unique system of intramural and extramural research programs, funding for academic and corporate product development, along with its supporting foundations, the National Institut

Multi-Disciplined Ecosystem-Centric Bioentrepreneurship Education: Case Study – University of San Francisco (USF)

Moira Gunn

Bioentrepreneurship education has evolved into at least three different types, all of which co-exist: Education 1.0 - In Service of Biotechnology Startups, Education 2.0 – In Service of

UC San Diego, The Military and Building a Unique, Diversified Economic Growth Ecosystem

Dennis Abremski

San Diego’s economy, fueled by its innovation ecosystem, has experienced meteoric growth over the past several decades, with the region now ranked amongst the top life sciences clusters

Global Alliances to Accelerate Innovation at Plug and Play Technology Center

Alireza Masrour

The Plug and Play (PnP) accelerator model is differentiated vs. traditional accelerators in many ways, especially by encouraging cross industry collaboration globally. PnP has developed a

California Tool Works: Assessing the Impact of Life Science Incubators and Accelerators

Matt Gardner

With the proliferation of types and business models in incubation and acceleration, a landscape survey commenced nearly a decade ago with innovation professionals running accelerators, in

Research on ice hockey and bio-science education based on nonlinear mathematical equation

Yanxin Liu

In order to avoid sports injury and other problems in the process of ice hockey, based on the existing ice and snow teaching, this paper innovates the ice and snow sports curriculum, refo

Encryption method of annual bad debt accumulation information and reimbursement based on ant colony algorithm

Lei Liu

In the enterprise financial information management, the information security of reimbursement and annual bad debt accumulation cannot be ignored. In order to solve the problem that the pl

Construction of Cultural Soft Power Evaluation Index Education System Policy Based On AHP

Xinhua Lu

Aiming at the low evaluation confidence of the traditional cultural soft power evaluation index system, a new cultural soft power evaluation index system is constructed based on AHP. This

Research on blind equalization algorithm of high-speed visible light communication signal based on machine learning and Marketing

Yali Li

In order to solve the problem of high communication error rate caused by inter symbol interference in high-speed visible light communication signal blind equalization algorithm, a high-sp

Audit credit guarantee risk identification method based on LM algorithm and bio commercial technology

Lei Liu, , Wen Yan

Aiming at the problem of low recognition accuracy caused by the high probability of training model falling into local extreme value in audit credit guarantee risk identification, an audit