Bioscience Entrepreneurship: "Creating Value and Wealth from Biology"
This seminar attempts to dissect the various opportunities and potential that are offered by bioscience and biobusiness, the concerns and challenges, market, the different disciplines of biobusiness from the ‘low-end’ to the ‘high-end’ applications, and also the incentive and support available for biotech entreprenuers.
Commercialization of Biotechnology
Bioscience Entrepreneurship: "Creating Value and Wealth from Biology"
Date: 26th March 2008
Venue: Auditorium Jurutera, Fakulti Kejuruteraan, UPM
Time: 8.30 am – 12.00 noon
This seminar attempts to dissect the various opportunities and potential that are offered by bioscience and biobusiness, the concerns and challenges, market, the different disciplines of biobusiness from the ‘low-end’ to the ‘high-end’ applications, and also the incentive and support available for biotech entreprenuers. It will also create an opportunity for entrepreneurs and scientists to meet with the speakers who come with a wealth of experience and expertise.
Prof. Paul Teng from the National Institute of Education, Singapore will be the key speaker who will explore various disciplines of life sciences to create new biobusinesses. The value chain; Asian biobusiness landscape; mushroom culture; biobusinesses based on microbiology; applied plant physiology and phytochemistry; applied genetics and breeding; tissue culture; genetic engineering; and tapping the opportunities for biobusiness entrepreneurship in Asia are some of the topics that will be covered.
Another speaker, Mr. Robert H. Mayer, who is the Executive-in-Residence for the Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation will present a talk on “Keys to Building Values in Bio-Businesses”. Mr. Mayer is mentoring the Bionexus companies and will share with us his expertise in building biobusinesses and commercialization. His experience and involvement in the US biotechnology industry would be very relevant to our local entrepreneurs. Mr. Izhar Hifnei Ismail, Senior Vice President at the Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation will present the opportunities, incentives and the support available for biotechnology companies in his talk entitled “Incentives for Biotechnology Companies in Malaysia”.
