[Monday, 18 March 2013: I just noticed that the directory I discuss in this post contains the following disclaimer: "The company listings in this directory are provided as a broad, representative sample of Texas companies in three major areas of the biotechnology industry. This directory is not a comprehensive source of all biotechnology or health-related companies in the state. Due to space limitations, the Office of the Governor Economic Development and Tourism division is unable to include all relevant firms in this document." Thus, whatever interpretations I make based on it should be considered a rough estimation at best. -IH]
I've written a synopsis of the 2012 Texas Biotechnology Industry Report (see previous post), but I'm going to hold off on posting it here until it first comes out on the next issue of the Postdoc Informer, the UT Southwestern postdoctoral community's bimonthly newsletter. In the meantime, I decided to look a bit more closely at the directory of Texas-based pharmaceutical and medical device companies also mentioned in my previous post. It's great that such a directory exists, but I was really curious as to how these companies were distributed geographically. I decided to look at the pharmaceutical companies first. Eighty-eight companies are listed, and below is the breakdown of the list by city:
("Other" = Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Lubbock, Quitman, Texarkana, and Waco)
In a sense, the breakdown isn't surprising: the top four are the four largest metropolitan areas in Texas by population.
Next post: the geographical breakdown of Texas-based medical device companies
(The list of companies in Excel format can be found here.)
I've written a synopsis of the 2012 Texas Biotechnology Industry Report (see previous post), but I'm going to hold off on posting it here until it first comes out on the next issue of the Postdoc Informer, the UT Southwestern postdoctoral community's bimonthly newsletter. In the meantime, I decided to look a bit more closely at the directory of Texas-based pharmaceutical and medical device companies also mentioned in my previous post. It's great that such a directory exists, but I was really curious as to how these companies were distributed geographically. I decided to look at the pharmaceutical companies first. Eighty-eight companies are listed, and below is the breakdown of the list by city:
("Other" = Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Lubbock, Quitman, Texarkana, and Waco)
In a sense, the breakdown isn't surprising: the top four are the four largest metropolitan areas in Texas by population.
Next post: the geographical breakdown of Texas-based medical device companies
(The list of companies in Excel format can be found here.)
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