Resource: Longevity Industry Landscape Overview 2018: Is there any "Longevity Industry" in Germany?
Last year, the "Longevity Research/Industry Landscape Overview 2017, The Science of Longevity" was published by the Biogerontology Research Foundation, Deep Knowledge Life Sciences and the Aging Analytics Agency, a pretty exhaustive compilation of research labs, non-profits, and other predominantly academic ventures (well done!). Here, Germany fared quite well, featuring not just the Max-Planck, but a handful of other institutions and the like.
Just recently, "Longevity Industry Landscape Overview 2018, The Business of Longevity" came out (again, I admire that painstaking work performed by the same group of people), and a single German company is mentioned: Ottobock, a "German prosthetics company", who develop, inter alia, "a computerized knee that adaptively varies its passive resistance to suit the patients' different walking gaits".
That's sad, really sad. Since I cannot really come up with much better examples, it may be true that the German longevity industry landscape is essentially empty.
Why is this? Ok, people here are less risk-taking, but that cannot be all the explanation.
What could be done? Feedback welcome. Maybe the solution is: just do it, do it yourself!
In fact, Reason (who inspired this newsletter) is just starting a company at the US East Coast. I wish him success!
Posted by Mindful, August 2018.