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The Sloan Biotechnology Industry Center will focus on
understanding what drives competitiveness within the U.S. biotechnology
industry.
The center's mission is to provide strategic, data-driven
information to biotechnology executives, policymakers, and other decision
makers to improve the competitive advantage of biotechnology firms.
It is our goal that we become a home for high-impact research on the forces
driving the competitiveness of the U.S. biotechnology industry.
A startup grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
helped establish the center in 2004.
The Sloan Biotechnology Industry Center at the University
of Maryland joins an elite group of university-based research facilities,
each focusing on a critical U.S. industrial sector.
In the research world, the Sloan Industry Centers enjoy
a strong reputation for thoughtful analysis and highly relevant application
of findings to industry. The centers apply a unique hands-on approach, in
which highly trained, interdisciplinary teams work closely with companies
to discuss issues, collect data and develop solutions to critical industry
challenges.
Jacques S. Gansler,
Ph.D., Director
The Honorable Jacques S. Gansler has extensive experience in business, government
and academia, and has specialized in issues of industrial competitiveness
and public-private partnerships. He holds the Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Public
Policy and Private Enterprise at the University of Maryland, and has served
as U.S. under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics
(1997-2001).
Shawn Lofstrom,
Ph.D., Director of Research and Sr. Research Scholar
Dr. Lofstrom also has considerable business and management experience prior
to her current academic career. Her research interests include issues related
to innovation, collaboration, and competitive advantage in the biotechnology
field and in a prior academic position, she developed and taught M.B.A.
courses on the business of biotechnology, and competitive strategies of
pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Dr. Lofstrom holds a Ph.D. in Strategic
Management and an M.B.A. in Strategic Management & Finance from the University
of Minnesota.
Sloan Biotechnology Industry Center
Maryland School of Public Policy
Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise
2101 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
E-mail: sbic@umd.edu
Phone: 301.405.2458
The Sloan Biotechnology Industry Center is located at
the University of Maryland, in College Park, Md. The university is one of
the nation’s finest public research universities, located near government
and nonprofit associations that influence the biotech industry.
Alfred
P Sloan Foundation
Advancis Pharmaceutical, Inc.
TEDCO
Maryland
Department of Business & Economic Development
University of Maryland
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