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Amgen,
Inc.
Thousand Oaks, California USA
Amgen, the world's
largest independent biotechnology company, was founded in
1980. Their corporate mission is to be the world leader in
developing and delivering important, cost-effective therapeutics
based on advances in cellular and molecular biology. The Thousand
Oaks, California-based company develops drugs for hematology,
oncology, bone and inflammatory disorders, and neuroendocrine
and neurodegenerative diseases. Its top products are anti-anemia
drug Epogen and immune system stimulator Neupogen. Amgen also
sells hepatitis C treatment Infergen in the US and Canada
and Stemgen, which supports stem cell transplantation, in
Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
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Becton
Dickinson and Company is one of the world's largest medical
technology companies with annual revenues of $2.7 billion
in 1995. Becton Dickinson manufactures and markets a broad
range of medical supplies and devices and diagnostic systems
for use by health care professionals, medical research institutions,
and the general public.
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E.I.
du Pont de Nemours (DuPont) conducts business in six major
segments: chemicals, fibers, life sciences, polymers, petroleum,
and diversified businesses. DuPont is number 15 in the Fortune
500, with 1997 sales of US$39.7 billion. The company operates
in 70 countries, with markets outside the US making up about
44% of sales. DuPont also has more than 75 research and development
sites worldwide. The part of Dupont that is engaging with
the Media Lab is its Photopolymers & Electronic Materials
(P&EM) division. P&EM was created in 1996 by an internal
reorganization that brought together into one unit the research
and development and manufacturing resources devoted to film-based
photopolymer products for the electronics and printing industries
and the emerging market for holographic materials.
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engeneOs
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
engeneOS
was formed in late 2000 to exploit a tremendous opportunity
at the intersection of the biological, physical, and information
sciences. By integrating knowledge from the ongoing genomics
revolution with cutting edge technologies from the physical
and information sciences, the company is pioneering the commercialization
of Biomolecular Engineering. engeneOS plans to design and
build programmable Biomolecular Devices from both natural
and artificial building blocks. These Biomolecular Devices
will have a broad range of commercial applications within
the areas of biosensing and detection, chemical synthesis
and processing, bio-electronic devices and materials, functional
genomics and drug discovery.
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Motorola is one
of the world's leading providers of wireless communications,
embedded semiconductors, and advanced electronic systems and
services. Major equipment businesses include cellular telephone,
two-way radio, paging and data communications, personal communications,
automotive, defense and space electronics, and computers.
Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector sponsors the Motorola
DigitalDNA Laboratory at the Media Lab, which focuses on the
development and linking together of "smart" products
that anticipate the needs of their users to create "things
that think and link." The term DigitalDNA defines Motorola's
leadership in embedded solutions and the continuous innovations
that help create smarter products. Motorola SPS is the world's
leading producer of embedded semiconductor solutions, with
more than 8 billion in use today. Communications devices,
networking and computer systems, automotive electronics, and
millions of other products are powered by Motorola embedded
solutions. Motorola's 1998 sales were $29.4 billion.
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NewcoGen
Group was formed in late 1999 to focus on creating and developing
new ventures in the life science and information technology
fields.
NewcoGen applies a systematic entrepreneurial process
that is used to identify and develop companies capable of
achieving leadership positions in attractive target markets.
New venture concepts are either generated internally
or sourced externally from a network of NewcoGen Group advisors,
academics, entrepreneurs, venture capital referrals or corporate
partners.
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Procter &
Gamble is a leading world-wide consumer product company with
sales over $33 billion. P&G's product range includes detergents
and household cleaning supplies; paper; personal care, beauty
care, cosmetic, and fragrance items; over-the-counter drugs;
pharmaceuticals; and food and beverage products.
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The Roche Group
is a world leader in research-based healthcare with its principal
business activities in pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, vitamins,
fragrances and flavors. Through the company's Diagnostics
Division, innovative products and services are made available
to physicians, patients, hospitals, and laboratories world-wide.
Roche's purchase of Corange in 1998 made it the world's #1
diagnostics company. Roche Patient Care, a business unit of
Diagnostics, is a world leader in the field of diabetes monitoring.
The diabetes products from Roche Patient Care include blood
glucose systems and urine tests for screening and assessment,
diagnosis, therapy monitoring, and patient self-management.
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Zyomyx, Inc.
is a rapidly growing early-stage biotechnology company whose
mission is to develop a novel protein-biochip platform technology
facilitated by a highly integrated effort in microfabrication,
advanced materials and protein biochemistry.
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3M is a $16 billion
technology company with leading positions in electronics,
telecommunications, industrial, consumer and office, health
care, safety and many other markets.
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Agfa-Gevaert
Group makes and markets photographic and electronic imaging
systems for photography, pre-press, and medical imaging processes
worldwide. The firm also makes films, laser imaging
systems, and systems for digital radiography.
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The Gillette
Company is the world leader in male grooming products, writing
instruments and correction products, toothbrushes and oral
care appliances, and is a leading manufacturer of household
and haircare appliances. Products are manufactured at 50 facilities
in 24 countries and distributed in over 200 countries and
territories. 1995 sales were $6.8 billion.
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Hewlett-Packard
is an international manufacturer of computers, printers, calculators,
test equipment, and medical instruments recognized for their
excellence in quality and performance
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IBM
Armonk, New York USA
As
the world's largest information technology company, IBM develops,
manufactures and sells advanced technology processing products,
including computers and microelectronic technology, software,
networking systems and information technology-related services.
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With more than
80% of the PC microprocessor market, Intel is the world's
leading chip maker. Intel makes microprocessors, including
the powerful Pentium and the low-end Celeron, that have provided
the brains for IBM-compatible PCs since 1981. Intel
also provides flash memories and embedded chips for communications,
industrial equipment, and military markets.
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Lucent Technologies
is uniquely positioned to create and lead a new industry category:
communications networking and technology. Amid an exploding
global market that is expected to total $575 billion in 2000,
Lucent is a world leader in designing, building, and delivering
a wide range of public and private networks, communications
systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone
systems, and microelectronic components.
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Founded in 1975,
Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software for personal
computers. The company offers a wide range of products and
services for business and personal use, each designed with
the mission of making it easier and more enjoyable for people
to take advantage of the full power of personal computing
every day.
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SCA is an integrated
paper company that manufactures hygiene products, packaging,
and graphic papers. Europe is SCA's primary market, with ongoing
expansion in Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, and America.
SCA is Europe's foremost user of recovered paper with equal
quantities of recycled and fresh wood fibers in its products.
The company owns 4.4 million acres of productive forest land
and conducts extensive sawmill operations based on their wide
expertise in wood fiber properties. At the beginning of 1998,
employees numbered approximately 33,000 in more than 30 countries.
For 1997, the company had a pre-tax operating profit of $687
million on net sales of $7,232 million. Its know-how is used
to develop new products characterized by higher added value
for private consumers, institutions, industry and trade.
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Time, Inc.
New York, New York USA
A subsidiary
of Time Warner, Time Inc. is the leading US consumer magazine
publisher, with more than 35 magazines in its collection (Time,
People). Time has become part of the new AOL Time
Warner following American On Line's January 2001 acquisition
of Time Warner. AOL Time Warner is the world's first Internet-powered
media and communications company, whose industry-leading businesses
include interactive services, cable systems, publishing, music,
cable networks and filmed entertainment.
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Japan's
#2 printer behind Dai Nippon Printing, Toppan Printing generates
about a fourth of its sales through commercial products (posters,
catalogs, calendars). It also prints securities and cards (checks,
bank passbooks, magnetic cards), publications (magazines, books,
CD-ROMs), and packaging products (containers, labels). In addition,
Toppan manufactures electronics-related materials (photomasks,
color filters, printed wiring boards) and industrial materials
(decorative sheeting, wallpaper). The company has operations
throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.
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Toshiba,
a world leader in high technology, is an integrated manufacturer
of electrical and electronic products spanning information
and communications equipment and systems (PC and other computer
systems, storage devices, telecommunications equipment, social
automation systems, medical electronics equipment, space related
products, etc.), electronic components & materials (semiconductors,
electron tubes, optoelectronic devices, liquid crystal displays,
batteries, printed circuits boards, etc.), power systems and
industrial equipment (industrial apparatus, power generating
plants, transportation equipment, elevators & escalators,
etc.), and consumer electronics (video and digital home products,
home appliances, etc.).
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Corporate
and Strategic Research Partners
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British
Telecommunications (BT) is the UK's leading phone company. BT
provides local and long-distance phone service with 28 million
access lines, as well as Internet access and other data services.
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Ireland's
onetime state-controlled telephone monopoly, Dublin-based
eircom was formerly known as Telecom Eireann. eircom's traditional
fixed-line business (75% of total sales) maintains more than
1.5 million phone lines providing domestic and international
voice and data communications for both the retail and wholesale
carrier's markets. The company has expanded to offer
data communications and Internet access, including broadband
technology, e-commerce, and multimedia services. Fixed-line
operations also include eircom's international presence in
Northern Ireland and the UK.
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The
LEGO Company is the world leader in providing quality products
and experiences that stimulate children's creativity, imagination,
and learning. The company has been manufacturing children's
toys since 1932. New business categories have been added during
recent years. In addition to the well known bricks, LEGO Company
now supplies software, clothes, learning materials, and adventure
parks. The Denmark headquarters cooperates closely with the
company's own development centers in San Francisco, Milan,
and London. LEGO Company is privately owned
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MasterCard International,
a new member of the Laboratory's Things That Think consortium,
is dedicated to helping more than 22,000 financial institutions
worldwide offer consumers a variety of payment options. The
company remains focused on helping shape the future of money
by expanding acceptance of its global brands (including Cirrusİ,
the world's largest ATM network), and maintaining reliable,
secure networks facilitating global value exchange. MasterCard
has nearly 370 million credit and debit cards that are accepted
at more than 13 million locations around the world. In 1995,
gross dollar volume generated was almost $500 billion.
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Motorola is one
of the world's leading providers of wireless communications,
embedded semiconductors, and advanced electronic systems and
services. Major equipment businesses include cellular telephone,
two-way radio, paging and data communications, personal communications,
automotive, defense and space electronics, and computers.
Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector sponsors the Motorola
DigitalDNA Laboratory at the Media Lab, which focuses on the
development and linking together of "smart" products
that anticipate the needs of their users to create "things
that think and link." The term DigitalDNA defines Motorola's
leadership in embedded solutions and the continuous innovations
that help create smarter products. Motorola SPS is the world's
leading producer of embedded semiconductor solutions, with
more than 8 billion in use today. Communications devices,
networking and computer systems, automotive electronics, and
millions of other products are powered by Motorola embedded
solutions. Motorola's 1998 sales were $29.4 billion.
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SMH owns internationally
recognized watch brands in every market segment, from $10
to $1 million per timepiece: Blancpain, Omega, Rado, Longines,
Tissot, Certina, Mido, Hamilton, Pierre Balmain, Swatch, Flik
Flak, and Lanco. SMH furnishes components to the entire Swiss
watch industry and owns a large international distribution
system. Under the name Swatch, SMH produces watches, including
Swatch Access with a built-in access control function that
can be used as a ski pass at most of the world's ski resorts,
and Swatch the Beep with a built-in pager. The Swatch car
is scheduled for production in 1998.
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Telmex
Mexico City, Mexico
Telmex is a world-class
telecommunications company that provides total telecommunications
solutions to its clients: Local and long distance wire service,
wireless communications, multimedia network for video, audio
and data, network engineering, digital wireless network access,
and Internet. Based in Mexico City, Telmex is currently
positioned as the regional market leader in Telecommunications,
with a presence in Mexico, The United States, Guatemala, Puerto
Rico, and Brazil. Formerly owned by the Mexican Government,
Telmex was privatized in 1990. With the participation of Carso
Global Telecom, France Telecom and Southwestern Bell, Telmex
is positioned to remain at the forefront of telecommunications
in the Americas.
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The world's largest
delivery organization, the United States Postal Service handles
some 200 billion pieces of mail a year--more than 40 percent
of the world's mail volume. Its 800,000 employees, supported
by more than 250,000 vehicles, serve 133 million addresses
from almost 40,000 postal facilities, every delivery day.
The Postal Service's 1999's operating revenue of almost $63
billion came from the sale of postal products and services.
The organization has not received an operating appropriation
from Congress since 1982. With an unrivalled delivery, transportation,
and retail network--as well as electronic access to many services--the
Postal Service has a presence in virtually every community
in the nation, providing prompt, affordable, universal service
to everyone, everywhere, every day.
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