Building Social, Investor and Tech Transfer Networks

Building vibrant social networks that link managers and company founders, scientists and inventors, and investors has helped the Bay Area and San Diego biotech clusters succeed, according to a 2009 study titled “The Marketplace for Ideas: Can Los Angeles Build a Successful Biotechnology Cluster?”

The Los Angeles region has historically lacked in this area, said the study’s lead author Steven Casper of the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences...

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