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Three unmet needs are our focus" "" "1. MONEY GAP. This must come from international Capital." "2. TALENT GAP. We have hundreds of international Mentors and Experts available by videoconference." "3. COMMUNITY GAP. Entrepreneurs cannot only mix at conferences. The monthly BioBash events are almost a year old, and help foster entrepreneurial community. View in LinkedIn

Rome was not built in a day" "" "ADVentura was launched at BioSpring last March, but really only got going in May. By June we secured a Letter of Intent for a Barcelona initiative for €1.5 - €5.0 Million. That project is ongoing." "" "It is clear that the expectations of the local community are disproportionate to reality. Raising capital for technology companies takes a lot of time. There is no magic touch, just hard work and patience. " "" "We identified three key gaps in this ecosystem. First, the MONEY GAP. Money has to be sourced outside of Spain. That is challenging, but feasible. Second, the TALENT GAP. We have hundreds of Mentors and Experts from around the world who can counsel local companies by videoconference. Thirdly, the COMMUNITY…

BioBash this coming Tuesday" "" "Come to our monthly gathering for entrepreneurs, hear a great speaker, drink some wine and eat finger food. You no longer have to meet fellow entrepreneurs at conferences! We aim to foster the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Barcelona. View in LinkedIn

EXPEDIENCY OF WAR CRIMES. "From 1945 to 1955 under Project Paperclip and its successors, the U.S. government recruited over 1,600 German and Austrian scientists and engineers in a variety of fields such as aircraft design, missile technology and biological warfare ... who had been involved with medical experiments on concentration camp inmates to test biological warfare agents. Since Britain, France and the Soviet Union were also engaged in recruiting these scientists ... altered or concealed the records of their Nazi past and involvement in war crimes." http://lnkd.in/dPk3hzT View in LinkedIn

MASAJI KITANO was later to head the large pharmaceutical company, Green Cross. Other doctors in Unit 731 landed good jobs in the US military research establishment. http://lnkd.in/dsfhi-Whttp://lnkd.in/ddhRyZr View in LinkedIn

UNPUNISHED WAR CRIMES. "After the war, the Soviets convicted some of the Japanese biowarfare researchers for war crimes, but the USA granted freedom to all researchers in exchange for information on their human experiments. In this way, war criminals once more became respected citizens, and some went on to found pharmaceutical companies. Ishii's successor, Masaji Kitano, even published postwar research articles on human experiments, replacing 'human' with 'monkey' when referring to the experiments in wartime China." http://lnkd.in/dnjsN5T View in LinkedIn

JAPANESE ARMY UNIT 731 "did research on BW, conducted often fatal human experiments on prisoners, and produced biological weapons for combat use. Biological weapons were used against both Chinese soldiers and civilians in several military campaigns. In 1940, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force bombed Ningbo with ceramic bombs full of fleas carrying the bubonic plague. Many of these operations were ineffective due to inefficient delivery systems, although up to 400,000 people may have died." http://lnkd.in/dFHK9z5 View in LinkedIn

BIOWARFARE IN WWII. "During the war, the Japanese army poisoned more than 1,000 water wells in Chinese villages to study cholera and typhus outbreaks. Japanese planes dropped plague-infested fleas over Chinese cities or distributed them by means of saboteurs in rice fields and along roads. Some of the epidemics they caused persisted for years and continued to kill more than 30,000 people in 1947, long after the Japanese had surrendered." http://lnkd.in/dnjsN5T View in LinkedIn

TARGETED ESPIONAGE. "It is possible, as molecular-control mechanisms improve in synthetic biology, that specific agents could be engineered to affect just a single person, such as the leader of a country or company." This is a daunting prospect considering the relative anonymity this likely confers. " " http://lnkd.in/dkjx-Yi View in LinkedIn

LOW FREQUENCY TARGETED BIO SABOTAGE. "Biological agents could cause workers at a specific plant or country to get ill, die or otherwise behave erratically at a frequency low enough to be mistaken as a naturally occurring phenomenon." This is part of the immense challenge of early detection. Add to this that the organism may be synthetic and not anticipated. " " http://lnkd.in/dkjx-Yi View in LinkedIn