The Seattle area biotech and medical device industry is not likely to produce any companies as big as Microsoft or Amazon. But smaller companies, with strange names, keep popping up—like Etubics, Numera, Obenomics, and NanoString.
And, apparently, this sector is adding jobs.
That’s the word at the annual Life Science Innovation Northwest conference, in Seattle this week.
Biotech and research jobs have increased in Washington, even as the overall economy sputtered. That’s according to a trade-group, the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association.
But the outlook for next year and beyond is less rosy.
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