BioVoice News April 2017 Issue 11 Volume 1 | Page 23

Mission Startup: Bangalore is the biotech start-up capital of India hosting 190 of the 1022 biotech start-ups formed in the last five years. National Capital Region (NCR) ranks second with 164 startups followed closely by Mumbai (163) and Hyderabad (160). sum up the deliberations on achieving our target, it would be to leverage existing strengths, identify unmet needs, reinvent half developed products and stay focused on long- term goals. The way India has shown its strength in vaccines where the product development took decades yet perseverance was never lost, the day isn’t far for us to be leaders in other areas too. Let the optimism be our driving force for the bio-revolution 2.0! Immediate Target Areas: • Food technology & agriculture crop products • Medical technology, diagnostics & vaccines • Biotherapeutics & biosimilars • Industrial enzymes • Phytopharma based biomedicines BIOVOICENEWS.COM 23