Ecosystem Leaders Discuss A System-Level Playbook for Incubating Maryland’s Bioeconomy

At BioBuzz’s Insights to Impact program, local leaders outlined a blueprint for scaling companies, attracting capital, and integrating the state’s innovation infrastructure.

Maryland does not lack science, research funding or patents.

It does not lack federal proximity, world-class research institutions, or seasoned operators who have built and exited companies. What it has historically struggled with is something more structural: converting early promise into companies that scale — and stay.

That reality framed the second half of the BioBuzz Insights to Impact program, where Deborah Hemingway, PhD of Ecphora Capital, moderated a discussion with leaders from across Maryland’s incubator and innovation landscape to examine a pressing question: What will it take to incubate better and grow the state’s bioeconomy?