Global Technology – October 2015

In Business Briefings, and its sister publication Trends, we often talk about the implications of our transition to the Deployment Phase of the Fifth Techno-Economic Revolution, in which infotech transforms other sectors, leading to a quantum leap in productivity.

Nowhere is revolution more clear than in biotech. Consider that it took just two post-doctoral researchers, a lab technician, four undergraduates, and their faculty advisors only four years to scour a collection of 10,000 bacterial strains and isolate the gene.....