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As a destination, Sweden is a country rich in both Life Science history and opportunities. With its strong innovative power and innovation-driven economy, Sweden is highly suitable for knowledge-intensive industry sectors such as Life Science, as the country is the most innovative in the world. Sweden’s science infrastructure is, without doubt, world-class. Sweden invests more in research and development than any other OECD country. Furthermore, Sweden has the world’s second highest expenditure on R&D after Israel and the third highest number of registered patents per capita in the world.
Something caught my eye while skimming through the pundits’ New Year reviews and predictions. Trailing a forthcoming US Biotech conference, The Street ruminated over Biotech stock prices during the last 12 months.
Despite an 11% gain across the sector, they summarised that ‘2011 wasn't so great for biotech investors’.
Crops and foods developed using biotechnology have been dismissed by many people in Europe. But there are many good reasons why it’s time to reconsider - here are five.
1) Biotech plants are part of the solution to the greatest challenge of our generation – hunger.
2) Scare-mongering claims by anti-groups have turned out to be untrue and people’s opinions are mellowing.
3) The world is adopting biotech crops at an incredible pace.
4) Biotech crops play an important role in the developing world.
5) They provide solutions to environmental problems.
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