What are Arizonas strengths and weaknesses in the biosciences?
Arizona has bioscience assets and strengths on which to build, including: • Arizona’s bioscience research competencies and scientific platforms have already been identified. • Unprecedented research and health-care collaboration is already being achieved. • Arizona has a strong information-technologies and advanced-communications industry that can help strengthen the state’s biosciences. • Initial investments and down payment on the Bioscience Roadmap have already been made. • TGen was successfully attracted to Arizona and additional signature contributions have been made by industry and philanthropy to universities. Arizona’s weaknesses to address include: • Inadequate research and talent base with insufficient depth and breadth means that Arizona is not among the top-tier states in bioscience research. • No critical mass of bioscience industry, and existing industry is not connected sufficiently to universities and clinical health care. • Lack of sufficient equity capital to form fir
