lunes, 3 de diciembre de 2018

China’s equivalent of Kendall Square is expanding rapidly - STAT

China’s equivalent of Kendall Square is expanding rapidly - STAT

The Readout

Damian Garde



China has its own Kendall Square — and it's booming


Shanghai’s “Pharma Valley” — a 10-square-kilometer life sciences hub — houses more than 500 biotech companies, and that figure keeps growing. Global biopharma companies like Roche and Novartis flank this hotbed for R&D, which is home to perhaps three-quarters of the country’s life sciences innovation.
The region isn’t as mature as Cambridge — but what it lacks in terms of proximal hospitals and academic institutions, it makes up for in unprecedented expansion. 
“In general, things move at a faster pace in China, and everything adapts to the pace of change of society,” one Pharma Valley exec told STAT.

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