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Virginia Governor McDonnell Aims to Lure Biotech Jobs
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell unveiled an economic development package Wednesday that includes $37 million to lure businesses and jobs to the commonwealth. Nearly one quarter of which is earmarked for...
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Bill Gates: Embrace Genetic Modification or Starve
Bill Gates has a terse response to criticism that the high-tech solutions he advocates for world hunger are too expensive or bad for the environment: Countries can embrace modern seed technology and...
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Greenpeace Founder: Biotech Opposition is Crime Against Humanity
A co-founder of Greenpeace speaks in favor of one of the things the organization has most vehemently opposed over the years. Dr. Patrick Moore was the keynote speaker at this week’s Manitoba Special...
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Bioscience Economic Development Needs Key Ingredients
Realizing that entrepreneurship is a key ingredient in economic development, states and localities continue to support programs that assist bioscience businesses and capitalize on the regional presence...
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Biotech is Growing in Colorado
Last month I posted a link to an interview featuring Colorado BioScience Association‘s (CBSA) Executive Vice President, April Giles. The interview briefly touched on some of the innovation happening in...
View ArticleGovernors Share Best Practices on Bringing Biotech Jobs to their States
With the state competition for biotech jobs in full force at the BIO International Convention, BIO released its Bioscience Economic Development report yesterday to a standing room only crowd that came...
View ArticleNYC Launches $100M Life Science Fund
On Tuesday, Deputy Mayor Robert Steel announced that the city is launching the New York City Emerging Life Science Technology Investment Fund, a $100 million venture fund for life sciences research....
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TPP and IP: The Economic Benefits of a Pacific Trade Agreement
Ndp Analytics recently published a study on the economic benefits of intellectual property rights (IP) in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. They find that 2/3’s of the “economic benefits for the U.S....
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BIO Testifies Before The Michigan Bioscience Caucus
BIO‘s Senior Policy Consultant, Peter Pellerito, recently testified before the Michigan Legislature’s Bioscience Caucus on economic development initiatives that support the growth of the bioscience...
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Building the Bioeconomy
Leaders across the globe have increasingly begun to target the bioscience industry as an economic engine that provides high wage, high-skilled jobs across a broad range of occupations. During the last...
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South Dakota Gov Daugaard Recieves BIO Food & Ag Award
This week, BIO presented South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard the first ever food and agriculture Legislator of the Year Award at the 2014 Livestock Biotech Summit. When presenting the award, BIO...
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Colorado Looks to Grow Biotech Industry
Colorado BioScience Association today launched Breakthrough Profiles, a social media campaign in partnership with Colorado’s Office of Economic Development and International Trade and Metro Denver...
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Governors Take Center Stage at State Bioscience Economic Development Panel
Governors and policymakers across the country understand value of bioscience jobs whether they be health care, agriculture or industrial. The value of high paying bioscience jobs and a highly educated...
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