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Offshoring Trends Net Biotech Firms

Posted by michael on from the doh dept.

Makarand writes "According to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, BioTech, once considered to be the next innovative sector to help offset the jobs losses from IT offshoring, is showing signs of riding an offshoring wave of its own. Foreign governments with a national priority to attract biotech businesses with highly trained research workers and new research centers are the new forces to reckon with in preventing the exodus of biotech jobs. Drug developers are looking at ways to cut costs of drug development as Americans and their employers are starting to constantly worry about the high price of prescription drugs. The lower costs of clinical trials and the ease with which human subjects can be recruited for drug tests in other countries are making biotech jobs susceptible to offshoring."

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  1. Re:This is not about the subject, but about Slashd by api_syurga · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You're the fuckhead if you still don't undestand what I'm talking. Fucking cowardly fucking fuckhead

  2. Re:Sick of it all by MeridianOnTheLake · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    "...then again there are nothing much we can do about things"
    You'd make a perfect corporate drone.
  3. Re:Ok, no problem. by torpor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No matter what happens to that debt, the US doesn't get bought up or sold off.

    oh my god. Clue Alert: What do you think it is, exactly, thats happening to your Country RIGHT NOW? It is being bought up, and very big parts of it are being sold off ...

    Clueless American Proles who have no idea what their politicians are doing are the reason why your country is in such a craph shape.

    Americans: DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR POLITICIANS!!!

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    ; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
  4. Re:The *really* sinister part... by meadowsp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you're no medical expert then I suggest you shut the f*** up, or provide sources to back up what you've said there.

  5. Re:Shocking! by LaCosaNostradamus · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Hmm, biotech, let's see now:
    • work requires higher education
    • work can be done in lab that can be built anywhere
    • work results can be shipped anywhere
    Every time I hear some Republican squawk about retraining and higher education, I just have to laugh. Biotech will be outsourced and offshored like everything else with such a mobile and educated workbase. We'd better fuck the "free market" before it fucks us.
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    [You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]
  6. Re:Capitalism by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm sure you know how difficult it actually is to get an H1B

    Not very. If it was at all difficult, we wouldn't have as many clueless gits here on a work visa.

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    "We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"