Problems hinder biotech industry: Trade group chief says companies leave state due to lack of training, venture capital.

Byline: Eric Anderson

Sep. 15--TROY -- Nathan Tinker says New York can create biotechnology companies. It just has trouble holding on to them.

"The incubators are filling up and there's a lot going on," he said in a phone interview Thursday. "But when it comes time to graduate out of the incubator, we lose the businesses, to Massachusetts, North Carolina, even Michigan."

Tinker, president of the New York Biotechnology Association, a trade group based in Stony Brook, has some ideas on how to change this. He will present them during a talk Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic …