Tuesday, January 5, 2010

BIONEXUS: COMPANY PROFITABILITY OR NATIONAL INTEREST?

Everyone knows the greatest power in driving any company is profitability. To increase the company profits and to reduce its risks companies are known to cut corners and finding ways to reduce the taxes they have to pay. Even better if there are other parties who are willing to inject capital especially in their high risk projects! Things simply could not go wrong! It is the ultimate formulae for success at least for the companies
Every body knows that setting up companies involve a lot of risks and it is a well known principle that out of the many new companies formed, many will fail. This failure is attributed to many reasons ranging from poor management, technical problems, and marketing and even from oversight to cash flow problems.
Some projects are even doomed to failure even before taking off, or while still on paper. They just don’t learn!!!. The best advice you can get before starting a company is to try obtaining the fundings from the bank or any other private institutions. They will vet your paper to the dot to see if the project is going to be a liability to their investment
And suddenly in the exciting spin of biotechnology, we have people or bodies who are willing to throw caution to the wind and throw “free or easy” capital to these companies in the name of biotechnology! The only problem is the money they are throwing are not theirs but the taxpayers!
As for me I would not be convinced by hype sounding words or terms, nor promises or potentials! To me I want to see track records. I know there are risks involved in any project but at least I will take calculated risks! I am not convinced at all by the sacks of MOUs but rather by the company performance and profitability.
I fear that in the end all these bionexus exercise will only profit the companies and not the nation


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