Projects left behind by the waves

Projects left behind by the waves

A long if not coherent life has left me with many projects that I am not working on now. Some are just projects that I have ongoing, or are ‘paused’, usually indefinitely. Some has been definitively stopped.

 These pages are the graveyard for such projects.

Emjoy!

Fun Stuff

These are some pages of material that do not fit particularly well elsewhere, but which people ask me for occasionally. Think of it as my online attic … .

Hypotheses in the Life Sciences

Ideas and speculations In 2008 I became editor of the journal Bioscience Hypotheses, a spin-out of the journal Medical Hypotheses. The journal was published by Elsevier, and did very well, establishing a name for itself and getting some good papers (and, of course, some not very good ones, but such is science). I also got the… Continue reading Hypotheses in the Life Sciences

Teaching

Undergraduate and graduate level teaching on biotechnology entrepreneurship For 15 years I taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in entrepreneruship, focusing on the early stages of biotech company creation and financing. My teaching was not typical Business School stuff. I focused on specifics, on the practicalities of how to get things done in a biotech start-up,… Continue reading Teaching

The evolution of new technology

How (bio)technology is developed and applied. New medical technolologies do not start or finish with an ‘invention’ . New therapeutic ideas take years or decades to develop to the point of invention, and then usually take 20 years from there to get to general application. Generally, scientists understand that it takes years, decades, sometimes a… Continue reading The evolution of new technology

Funding biotech

Venture Capital and the European Biotechnology Industry. Doing biotechnology needs money. You can make an app in your bed-sit in your spare time, but you cannot make a drug or a biofuel manufacturing plant that way. Or at least, not safely and legally. Traditionally that funding has come from investment, and there lies the problem… Continue reading Funding biotech

Fun Stuff

These are some pages of material that do not fit particularly well elsewhere, but which people ask me for occasionally. Think of it as my online attic … .

Hypotheses in the Life Sciences

Ideas and speculations In 2008 I became editor of the journal Bioscience Hypotheses, a spin-out of the journal Medical Hypotheses. The journal was published by Elsevier, and did very well, establishing a name for itself and getting some good papers (and, of course, some not very good ones, but such is science). I also got the… Continue reading Hypotheses in the Life Sciences

Teaching

Undergraduate and graduate level teaching on biotechnology entrepreneurship For 15 years I taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in entrepreneruship, focusing on the early stages of biotech company creation and financing. My teaching was not typical Business School stuff. I focused on specifics, on the practicalities of how to get things done in a biotech start-up,… Continue reading Teaching

The evolution of new technology

How (bio)technology is developed and applied. New medical technolologies do not start or finish with an ‘invention’ . New therapeutic ideas take years or decades to develop to the point of invention, and then usually take 20 years from there to get to general application. Generally, scientists understand that it takes years, decades, sometimes a… Continue reading The evolution of new technology

Funding biotech

Venture Capital and the European Biotechnology Industry. Doing biotechnology needs money. You can make an app in your bed-sit in your spare time, but you cannot make a drug or a biofuel manufacturing plant that way. Or at least, not safely and legally. Traditionally that funding has come from investment, and there lies the problem… Continue reading Funding biotech