Bayer's CoLaborator seeks startups, partnerships

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Bayer HealthCare is launching a bold experiment with four companies, 6,000 square feet of space and a dream of where Big Pharma collaborations could lead.

From now-vacant ground-floor space at its research facility in San Francisco’s Mission Bay, the Berkeley-based U.S. unit of the German drug maker this summer will open its doors to four companies. The hope is that Bayer will not be a mere incubator landlord, but a partner that could use those companies’ technologies or drugs.