Yali Friedman's book, Building Biotechnology, is used as a course text in dozens of biotechnology programs. He regularly guest lectures for the Johns Hopkins MS/MBA program in biotechnology, teaching classes on the business of biotechnology. In supporting New Economy Strategies' activities in technology-based economic development, he has published papers on topics such as strategies to cope with a lack of management talent and capital when developing companies outside of established hubs, entrepreneurship in biotechnology, and new paradigms in technology-based economic development.

Yali is also managing editor of the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology and serves on the science advisory board of Chakra Biotech and the editorial advisory boards of the Biotechnology Journal and Open Biotechnology Journal.

Yali has a long history in biotechnology media, having created a Forbes "Best of the Web"-rated web site on the biotechnology industry for a NY Times company and managed it for many years. His other projects include the Student Guide to DNA Based Computers, sponsored by FUJI Television, BiotechBlog.com, and DrugPatentWatch.com, a pharmaceutical industry competitive intelligence service based on a business plan that was awarded second place in the Panasci Entrepreneurial Awards Competition.