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Category Archives: Reports and Research

Q2 2011 in Canadian Healthcare – Commercial Events were the Focus

There is a tendency to focus on clinical and regulatory events when looking at the biotech sector. However, the list of sector events in Equicom’s Q2_2011 Canadian_Healthcare_Review (which I co-author with Ross Marshall, Senior VP at Equicom) shows a greater number of commercial events, including mergers, acquisitions, in-licensing, partnering, R&D agreements and product launches. In the initial [...]

Biotech IPOs Past — 10 Years After the Biotech Venture Capital Boom of 1999-2001

You often hear people in this industry reminiscing about biotech booms and praying for another IPO window to open. The three most recent boom/windows were in 1995-1996, 1999-2001 and 2003-2005, each of which was impacted by both positive external market forces and a driving factor within biotech. The most spectacular boom/window was in 1999-2001, with [...]

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