Biotech has never concentrated in just one place. This industry tends to grow up in geographic clusters, but it will always be spread around the map, partly because great science comes from hundreds of academic hotspots around the world.
But there have always been two places—San Francisco and Boston—that have stood out way above all the other hubs of biotech. And something truly special is happening now in Boston’s biotech cluster, and it’s a long-term mega-trend. Boston, I’m convinced, is very close to taking the title as the world’s No. 1 biotech hub, and holding onto that distinction for a generation.
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