Author: Steve Bares

Recently, a group of scientists, academics, government officials and agriculture experts gathered at the Pommery Vineyard in the heart of the French Champagne region.  But the subject wasn’t the making of the world’s most famous...

As you read this blog entry, deep in the heart of the Memphis Bioworks offices, five “companies to be” are deep in preparations to take the next step toward commercialization and ultimately, they hope, business success. The five...

Bioworks recently hosted Brad Smith, the interim director of Launch Tennessee.  Brad was here for a quarterly review of the Greater Memphis Accelerator Consortium’s activities and an overview of the progress made in building the...

In early June, I had the privilege of attending the Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) 2012 meeting in Chicago.  I was there to represent the Memphis Bioworks AgBioworks Regional Initiative as one of the programs...

Memphis Bioworks Foundation Memphis is currently in the midst of one of its most important tourism months of the year.  For most people, May in Memphis means music, barbecue, cultural events and a sunset symphony. What is often...

One of the most important aspects of bioscience business development success for a community, and one of the often-repeated mantras of Memphis Bioworks, is the concept of building from your positions of strength. In Memphis, two...

I have to say, it is great to see cranes, cement trucks and construction on the UT-Baptist Research Park. The great recession that brought about the national quagmire in the banking and commercial real-estate sectors, made it...