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Minnesota Biomedical and Bioscience Network (MBBNet): A Cluster of Innovation

MBBNet is a leading biomedical and bioscience network in Minnesota, connecting a geographically concentrated group of interconnected companies and institutions. It promotes innovation and fosters collaboration in areas such as regenerative medicine, biomaterials, and technology-enhanced health services.

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Minnesota Biomedical and Bioscience Network (MBBNet): A Cluster of Innovation

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  1. A Cluster of InnovationMBBNetMinnesota Biomedical and Bioscience Network William Hoffman Biomedical Engineering Institute & MBBNet University of Minnesota

  2. What are Clusters? • Geographically concentrated groups of interconnected companies and associated institutions in a particular field linked by common technologies and skills The Competitive Advantage of Nations, 1990 • Michael E. Porter • Harvard Business School

  3. Clusters and Innovation National innovative capacity depends on • the strength of the national innovation infrastructure • the environment for innovation in its leading industrial clusters, and • the strength of linkages between these two areas. Stern, Porter & Furman • National Bureau Economic Research • September 2000

  4. Measuring National Innovation Capacity Stern, Porter & Furman, 2000

  5. Clusters and Innovation • The National Innovation System • “complex adaptive system” • “dense web of individuals, private organizations and public bodies” • “propensity toward clustering” • Popper & Wagner • U.S. Innovation System • RAND: S & T Policy Institute • January 2002

  6. Clusters and Innovation • Social Networks • “The locus of innovation is found in a network of interorganizational relationships.” • Powell, Koput & Smith-Doerr • “Networks of Learning • in Biotechnology” • ASQ, 1996

  7. MBBNet • World’s largest cluster-driven Web portal in the life sciences & health care fields

  8. Google Search • For “biomedical community” • 1. Harvard Biomedical Technology • Gateway • 2. MBBNet • For “bioscience community” • 1. Bay Area Biosciences Center • 2. MBBNet

  9. Biomedical Clusters

  10. Jeff Johnson – Hybrid Medical Animation

  11. MBBNet – Zurich MedNet Link • First transatlantic cluster-to-cluster Web portal link • 1,400 organizations in the two regions • U of M – biomedical engineering & biotechnology • Zurich MedNet - Winterthur Consortium & Zurich Network • New Product Design & Business Development NPDBD • Faculty & student exchange [U of M Global Seminar] • Winterthur Investment Summits

  12. BioCluster Upgrading: Factor-creating investment Knowledge resources • Stem cell technology and regenerative medicine • Biomaterials and biosensors • Miniaturization and nanotechnology • Technology-enhanced health services The Global Technology Revolution National Intelligence Council / RAND 2001 Human resources Capital resources Infrastructure

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