Category Archives: Boston-Cambridge

Biopharmaceutical Innovation Hubs and the Future of Work

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Alexander Szewczak

Innovation hubs such as metro Boston are all the rage.  Urban living is back in style, face-to-face communication trounces teleconferences, and innovation-starved pharma companies are looking to academic centers for new targets and new enabling technologies.  Academic institutions in turn are looking … Continue reading →

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Takeda Joins the R&D Migration to Boston

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Alexander Szewczak

From Fierce Biotech, news that the “unending game of global reorganization in biopharma R&D is continuing” with a new move by Takeda to close several vaccine operations around the U.S. in order to concentrate R&D in “the hot Boston/Cambridge, MA hub“

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Boston breaks seasonal snowfall record

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Alexander Szewczak

Residents in the Boston-Cambridge area can take some small comfort in the fact that this winter has in fact broken the record for most snowfall in a season. “Superbowls, World Series’, Stanley Cups, and snowfall records,” Mayor Martin J. Walsh tweeted. “We are truly … Continue reading →

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The New Geography of Innovation

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Alexander Szewczak

A dramatic shift in the geography of innovation is underway, according to a new report authored by Bruce Katz and Julie Wagner of the Brookings Institute, and Kendall Square is the poster child for the paradigm.  Bruce and Tim Row of the … Continue reading →

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