People say the world is getting smaller. In some ways, that’s true. Global trade, the Internet, affordable international travel and instant communications have all made access easier. If you’re a biotechnology company today, you’re as likely to sell product in China as in Kentucky. But paradoxically, a smaller world is also a bigger world: greater ease of doing business means more business to do.
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