Global Bioentrepreneurship After all, there is excellent news coverage of the biotechnology trade press? In a word … Yes. Global Entrepreneurship, or GBioE, is a place where trusted Biotech Industry insights may be found and your relevant experiences may be shared, all from professionals-to-professionals, which might be called “p-to-p”. Of course, this begs the question: Is such an effort necessary?

With GBioE, we recognize that insights are often not news items. Valuable experience, analysis and reflection can only be gained over time, and its expression requires thought and consideration. You – the industry – are the people who take the risks, who dare to undertake the endeavor, who are willing to share their part in moving this humanity-changing industry forward. GBioE’s promise is to vet these contributions from a journalistic verification point-of-view, and while not every contribution may speak to you or your work or every reader, some just might prove to be essential to your thinking, to your personal strategies and to your future – either individually, or for your organization.

We hope that you will consider sharing your own insights.

Global BioEntrepreneurship – GBioE - both the term and this inaugural volume of peer–reviewed contributions–has a very simple premise: All bioenterprise is global, or potentially so. Thus, while most bioenterprise starts locally, usually initiated by just a few individuals, who become the co-founders, all biotech products and services have worldwide applicability and potential. This journey to global, this experience of being global, means that every bioenterprise must understand today’s landscape of nation-by-nation product and device regulatory systems, what may be acceptable in one geographic location that is not in another, how to be multinational all at once, and more. Thus, every bioenterprise of any size is a part of the global biotech industry, and the experience of every bioentrepreneurial endeavor, no matter the size, and every biotech entrepreneur, and, indeed, every sector of the biotech industry itself is important and essential. Of course, the only constant is change: at the frontiers of science and technology, in the nuanced demands of government policy, in societal attitudes, and the ever-present questions of ethics.

We hope that you will consider sharing your own insights.

at GBioE.com, including the opportunity described in Chapter One.

In parallel, we seek also to further develop the academic discipline of Bioentrepreneurship, enabling the formal teaching of biotech industry principles and biotech–specific business concepts in all the various disciplines, which are required for success in bioenterprise. From science to intellectual property to venture capital, finance, multinational expertise, regulatory affairs, information systems, and more. The hope here is to give voice to all the participants in bioenterprise everywhere, with mutual understanding and appreciation.