stry convention lauds subcontinent market

BOSTON — India’s mushrooming biotech industry is poised to become one of the driving forces behind the country’s torrid economic growth in the near future, according to a panel of Indian biotech industry executives and government officials who convened May 7 at the BIO 2007 International Convention in Boston. But the group also concluded that India’s biotech elephant won’t grow to its full potential unless it can lure more foreign investors and partnerships to the country.