Hub 101: Taiwan biotech looks to level up

At BIO Asia–Taiwan last week, Taiwan Bio Industry Organization Chairman Johnsee Lee pitched the island as an emerging biotech hub whose ecosystem has expanded from a largely domestic base to a growing overseas footprint. Taiwan now aims to become the global biotech industry’s partner of choice and a gateway to Asia.

The conference’s Regional Collaboration Forum, presided over by Taiwan Bio Secretary-General Wallace Lin, underscored that strategy: use partnerships to offset the resource constraints and challenges facing ecosystems that don’t have the oomph of those in China and the U.S...