BIOTECH - Tartu biotech looks to assert itself in challenging global sector

  • 2007-07-18
  • By Justin Petrone
TARTU - In recent years, two phenomena have helped Estonia carve out a path towards a knowledge-based economy. The first, Skype, showed that Estonian programmers are talented enough to impact the global communications market. The second, the Estonian Genome Project, has demonstrated Estonia's ambition in the molecular biology field while at the same time underscoring how difficult it is to develop a healthy biotech sector from scratch.The saga of the genome project itself speaks volumes about the status of Tartu's biotech sector. Established in 2001 by the government as the Estonian Gen...
 
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