Author Archives: Ian

Ian Anderson founded Ailm Consulting Ltd. in direct response to his long-term career focus on directing and counselling knowledge-based industries to seize growth opportunities and improve bottom-line profitability. Ian’s industrial experience is broad, especially in the health and life sciences, and information and communications services sectors. His general management background comprised of more than twenty years includes such international industries as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, medical technology and devices, and biotechnology and he was a founding Principal of a major national contract management firm.

What Characteristises a Well-Run Biotech Business?

Biotech Experts doing Business: Biotechnology companies use complex processes and procedures that are nearly always patented. These will have been developed in an institutional laboratory by scientists and engineers who have track records in R&D.So the people that start biotech firms and expect to run them have been trained in a research environment, often not-for-profit. [...]