A plan to boost Montgomery County's bioscience industry that a consultant outlined today before the County Council is different from past reports because it more concretely offers a "road map" to achieving its goals, say business leaders and county officials.
"This is a call to action," said Elaine Amir, executive director of the Johns Hopkins University's Montgomery County campus in Rockville. She was a member of the county's Biosciences Task Force, which released a report in late 2009. "People don't want another report. ... This is unlike anything else we have done before."
The county hired consultant Richard A. Bendis to draft an implementation plan to execute the task force's 2009 recommendations. A major proposal in the plan is a private-public partnership, or "innovation intermediary," to coordinate the overall strategy. Bendis said he had met with leaders of biotechs such as MedImmune of Gaithersburg, and they wanted to "see something accelerated on this."
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Author: Kevin James Shay
