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Analysis of the Neurotechnology Industry

Posted on May 25, 2008

The Ultimate Cureby David Ewing Duncan CondeNast PortfolioMay 2008 The neurotech industry is engaged in a $2 trillion race to fix your brain. Many players will fail, but the payoff will be huge for those who succeed. [snip] Neurotech s returns are already enormous. In 2006, the industry brought in more than $120 billion about $101 billion from drugs and the rest from neurodevices ($4.5 billion) and neurodiagnostics ($15 billion) up 10 percent from the previous year, reports NeuroInsights, a market research and investment advisory firm. But industry analysts insist that this figure hard...

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