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.
What Andy Grove still gets wrong about the life sciences — and how he could help fix them
(UPDATED: See below.)
Like DNA co-discoverer James Watson, whose career ended last month after he linked genetic intelligence differences to race, former Intel chairman Andrew Grove seems to be falling into the trap of assuming that expertise in one field automatically translates into wisdom in others. In this Newsweek interview and in a recent speech to the Society of Neuroscience, for instance, Grove has launched a new jeremiad against the pharma/biotech industry and the life sciences in… Continue Reading