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Your weekend reading includes the hunt for Europe’s most innovative biotech, food for thought about investment into IT, continued good news for some of the BRICs and what’s new in agbiotech.     EuropaBio has put out its call for applications for the 4th annual Most Innovative European Biotech SME Award 2013, with a €10,000 cash prize and free membership of EuropaBio on the line. Applications forms can be downloaded from EuropaBio’s website until the deadline of June 10th. For most biotech start-ups, experimental data is their most valuable asset, and constitutes the bulk of their intellectual property. Companies not equipped  … Read more

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News Net brings you news you may have missed in the world of bioentrepreneurism. Today, an expert’s thoughts on what makes a successful life science cluster, and two Mid-Atlantic regions stake their claim.   Two recent reports highlight the growth of North Carolina’s life science sector—specifically the Raleigh-Durham area. Battelle ranks NC third behind California and Massachusetts, and Jones Lang LaSalle puts Raleigh-Durham area as the fourth largest life sciences cluster in the US based on employment, number of companies and the amount of VC and NIH funding. Read more here. Newark, New Jersey’s future biotech cluster has gained another tenant:  … Read more