Posted by Robert Lee Kilpatrick October 05, 2009 | 0 comment(s)
The phrase “Think Globally, Act Locally”, was originated by the French-American microbiologist and humanist Rene Jules Dubos, as an adviser to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. In addressing the issue of ecological consciousness, he suggested that there needed to be the creation of a World Order in which “natural and social units maintain or recapture their identity, yet interplay with each other through a rich system of communications.”
Over 35 years later, the world is at a turning-point, with global warming, rapid human population growth, food security issues, and the steady erosion of the earth’s ecosystem, all requiring novel sustainable economic solutions. There is no shortage of good ideas, and now is the time to make it easier for people to work together to solve problems which affect all life on earth. The photo of earth taken by Apollo 17 in December of 1972 makes us realize that there is no special first class cabin to which the privileged few may retreat. We sink or swim together, and together we can make a go at finding solutions. TVG is playing an active and dynamic role in helping solve these problems via our social network. Dynamic new businesses and industries will arise from this immediate need.
TVG specializes in building and maintaining social networks for the life science industry, which are dedicated to developing novel solutions in the areas of human, animal and plant health; food; energy; materials; various industrial processes which will contribute to a new sustainable global economy in the 21st century. This is termed the “bio-economy” – an economy based on the use of living systems. In contrast, the petroleum-based economy is based on extracting non-renewable energy from the earth. The most effective way to grow and develop the companies that will create the bio-economy is by using social networks to tap global innovation - as Dubos pointed out, using a rich system of communications. TVG has been doing this for nearly 20 years and now a critical mass of players has arisen around the world, creating a need for a new kind of social network.
On October 12th, 2009 TVG’s BioPartnering franchise goes global at the 17th Annual BioPartnering Europe (BPE) conference in London. The result will be the world’s first global partnering platform that allows life science companies, and the community of people supporting them, to make contact, to communicate and to collaborate on a global scale. Nothing like this has ever been seen before.
BioPartnering is a specific form of networking, and TVG is the world leader in BioPartnering. Join us in London for BioPartnering Europe (BPE) and BioPartnering China (BPC), October 11-14 where you will meet representatives from Europe, China, India, Brazil, USA, Canada, and Australia who will answer your questions.
That this innovation is coming from TVG, and its associates, is not surprising because TVG created the first biotech-pharma partnering conference in 1993 (BioPartnering Europe). This was followed in 1996 by TVG’s launch of the first life science social network which began as a partnering software tool to schedule face-to-face meetings at conferences. This product – biopartnering.com - has been accepted by the life science industry as the “gold standard” by which all others are measured.
Next week in London, TVG associates will be arriving from around the world to talk about the global expansion of the BioPartnering franchise in 2010. This includes events in a majority of the world’s most important markets for life science innovation. For several years, TVG has been laying the foundation for this expansion, and together with industry leaders, we are able to offer our clients a seamless business experience.
Your calendar for 2010 will look like this:
January 24-26: BioPartnering North America (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
May 25-27: C21 BioVentures (Napa, California, USA)
June 2-4 : BioPartnering India at BangaloreBio 2010 (Bangalore, India)
September: BioPartnering Latin America (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
October: BioPartnering Europe (Europe)
November: BioPartnering China (Shanghai, China)
In each of these markets, TVG is working with leading organizations who will act effectively on the ground, working closely with key government agencies, public and private companies, science parks, bio-clusters and biotech associations, and the many leading service companies that support the life science industry – global and local.
TVG has a reputation for being the first and the best at everything we do because we have a simple formula. We always put the needs of our clients first, and we choose associates who do the same.
Join with us in 2010 and be a part of a historic project. We say Think Globally, Act Locally. TVG’s BioPartnering franchise enables you to tap global innovation.
Dr. Robert Lee Kilpatrick – Biotech Gadfly
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Gadfly - a term for people who upset the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, while at the same time being accepted as a description of honorable work or a civic duty.
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RESOURCES
Rene Dubos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Dubos
TVG Conference Network: http://www.techvision.com/network
biopartnering.com Network: http://www.biopartnering.com