Burrill: Biotech Now Profitable After 40 Years

From Steve Burrill:

Biotech Scores Black Ink
Stock prices have tanked, financial markets have seized and companies are laying off staff and putting promising projects on ice. In the midst of all of this grim news it’s easy to overlook an important milestone for the biotechnology industry. Peter Winter, editor of The Burrill Report, has been crunching the numbers and he says some 40 years after the industry began, it actually hit a major milestone in 2008 by turning profitable for the first time in its history. It’s not all good news by any means, but we talk to Winter about this major milestone for the industry, what we should make of it, and the emerging world of the biotechnology haves and the biotechnology have-nots.

http://www.burrillreport.com/article-1134.html