Business | The biotechnology industry
Boston’s biotech hub is surviving the challenge from Silicon Valley
|CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS|5 min read
DISTANCE is not dead. In biotechnology, as in other tech-based industries, the clustering of similar firms is more important than ever. Some American biotech startups are based in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley area, huddled with its many digital and IT startups. But the Boston metropolitan area—and in particular Cambridge, across the Charles river from central Boston—seems to be holding its own as the world’s pre-eminent biotech hub.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Clusterluck”
From the January 16th 2016 edition
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