IAmBiotech.org Community Survey: Opportunities and Challenges in 2009

Thanks for agreeing to take the 2009 IAmBiotech Survey on the opportunities and challenges facing our community.  Your opinions are VERY important to us.  Please take just a few minutes to answer the following five questions.  We appreciate the time you take to provide us with your thoughts and opinions.  Survey results will be posted on www.IAmBiotech.org and shared during the 2009 Bio International Convention.

1) From among the following, please select the TOP THREE challenges facing those who work in biotechnology.

Science education   Research funding   Cost of technology   Government regulation   Opposition from activists and interest groups   Corporate financing and the availability of capital   Public understanding of biotechnology   Securing patent policy

2) In a few sentences and your own words, describe what you see as biotechnology's BIGGEST CHALLENGE.

3) The following are four things we are working to achieve through biotechnology.  Thinking of what can be done in the NEXT FIVE YEARS, please rank them in order from the MOST ACHIEVABLE goal to the LEAST ACHIEVABLE.

1)	Choose OneFINDING CURES for serious diseases like cancer and HIV/AIDS through biotech drugs and therapiesINCREASING ENERGY INDEPENDENCE through biofuelsPROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT by reducing pollution and global warming through industrial biotech and biofuelsREDUCING FAMINE AND HUNGER through biotech agriculture
2)	Choose OneFINDING CURES for serious diseases like cancer and HIV/AIDS through biotech drugs and therapiesINCREASING ENERGY INDEPENDENCE through biofuelsPROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT by reducing pollution and global warming through industrial biotech and biofuelsREDUCING FAMINE AND HUNGER through biotech agriculture
3)	Choose OneFINDING CURES for serious diseases like cancer and HIV/AIDS through biotech drugs and therapiesINCREASING ENERGY INDEPENDENCE through biofuelsPROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT by reducing pollution and global warming through industrial biotech and biofuelsREDUCING FAMINE AND HUNGER through biotech agriculture
4)	Choose OneFINDING CURES for serious diseases like cancer and HIV/AIDS through biotech drugs and therapiesINCREASING ENERGY INDEPENDENCE through biofuelsPROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT by reducing pollution and global warming through industrial biotech and biofuelsREDUCING FAMINE AND HUNGER through biotech agriculture

4) If you could choose one thing for the Biotechnology Industry Organization to do to promote biotechnology, what would it be?

5) Which of the following MOST applies to you?

Biotech business partner   Biotech scientist   Biotech business professional   Biotech student   Biotech fan   Other

6) If you would like to receive a copy of the survey results, please include your email address below.  Your email address will NOT be used to identify your survey responses, so please feel free to be candid.