More on drug discovery and comparable industries
Anyone interested in exploring better analogies for the drug industry — better, that is, than Andy Grove’s forced comparison to semiconductors — should just check out Derek Lowe’s blog In the Pipeline. In followup items, he’s already drawn analogies to Hollywood and oil wildcatting — neither a half-bad comparison — and his commenters have taken things even farther. (Such as, for instance, dating, Major League Baseball, and even warfare.) Highly recommended.
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About the Author, David P. Hamilton
David Hamilton has been writing for VentureBeat LifeScience since April 2007. He formerly spent 14 years as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in its San Francisco and Tokyo bureaus. Prior to that, he spent several years as a reporter at Science Magazine and as a reporter/researcher for the New Republic, both in Washington.
