BiODialogues

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
J. K. Galbraith

""Science" means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.""
Paul Valéry

EuroBiO 2008 is the opportunity for Europe’s life science community to make its collective voice clearly heard; to bridge the gap between the pro innovation rhetoric and the reality of the struggle to create and maintain life science businesses.

The higher intellects of Europe appreciate that it must be a hotbed of innovation. Yet the engines of that innovation seem designed only to maintain the status quo: a fiercely independent academia, patchy technology transfer, an absence of institutional risk-taking, preeminence of protocol and status, government schemes to help business overcome government bureaucracy (rather than removal of the bureaucracy or, indeed, the government), support for uncompetitive, dying industries … Are these not the signs of a continent playing to lose at innovation, a continent destined to lose its innovators?

The BioDialogues at EuroBiO define the debate and seek near-term solutions based on real needs and achievable actions. The BioDialogues are not about blue-sky navigating but about fixing the potholes that prevent European biotechnology from competing in the race.