Strategic Partners
LifeScience
Alley® (www.lifesciencealley.org)
is the largest trade association serving the life sciences in the
Midwest. It represents over 600 member companies, organizations and
institutions of all sizes that devote their efforts to the research,
development and commercialization of the life sciences as well as
those in the healthcare delivery system. Members represent all life
science industry sectors, including medical device, pharmaceutical,
biotechnology, health care providers, food and nutrition and
renewable energy.
2Market Information, Inc. , (
www.technologytransfertactics.com) is an Atlanta, GA-based global publishing
and information services company focused on providing practical, how-to
information that helps technology transfer and related research
commercialization professionals improve and speed efforts to bring early-stage
research out of the lab and into the marketplace. The company publishes two
subscription-based monthly newsletters – Technology Transfer Tactics and
Intellectual Property Marketing Advisor – and two free weekly e-zines, Tech
Transfer e-News and IP Marketing e-News, distributed to a worldwide audience of
200,000. Other products include the Tech Transfer Library series of special
reports, numerous audio conferences for tech transfer professionals, a Distance
Learning Subscription Program, and advertising and marketing services for
vendors to the tech transfer marketplace. In addition, through partnership
agreements the company offers numerous related resources, including valuation
and royalty rate references, valuation software, and market research reports.
The company is the world’s largest provider of continuing professional
development for tech transfer professionals.
Medical
Development Group (
www.meddevgroup.org),
headquartered in Massachusetts and serving the entire New England
region, is a community of individuals professionally committed to
the Medical Device and other Medical Technology Industry segments
united by the belief that innovation and advances in technology lead
to substantial improvements in health care.
MEX (www.medicalexperts.de)is
a conglomerate of the leading experts in Sales and Marketing,
Operations, Manufacturing, Regulatory and evaluation of medical
products in Germany.The medical community is slow to adopt changes
and reluctant to take risk, this is instinctively solved by
accumulating clinical studies however, this is a long and costly
process. Our challenge as sales organizations is to shorten the
adaptation process and create revenue in the most efficient way and
in the shortest time.MEX’s core service is supporting the value
creation chain of your product in Germany thus assisting your entire
European and even global efforts.
MichBio (www.michbio.org)
is the single unifying voice and statewide representative for the
biosciences industry in Michigan as well as the formal state
affiliate of the national Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
organization. As a trade association, MichBio is committed to
driving industry growth across Michigan by creating high-value
opportunities for education, collaboration, networking, and
advocacy, and by providing services and resources that foster a
flourishing environment for bioscience businesses. MichBio
members include life sciences companies, academic and research
institutions, bioscience service providers, and related
organizations.