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Tennessee: Serving Up Southern Hospitality Industrial-Style

Tennessee: Serving Up Southern Hospitality Industrial-Style

Taking a look inside Tennessee is like opening a box of chocolates. There’s an assortment and variety that can only be discovered when one takes a bit...

Plastics Play an Indispensable Role

Plastics Play an Indispensable Role

The U.S. plastics industry employs 1.4 million workers and provides more than $310 billion in annual shipments, and the plastics processing sector alo...

Maryland

Maryland

The research and development team at Protiveris, Inc., a small Maryland-based biotechnology company, had reached an impasse. In trying to optimize a c...

The Convergence of Health Care, Biotech, and Technology - and the Location Decisions...

The Convergence of Health Care, Biotech, and Technology - and the Location Decisions Behind Them

The continued integration of bio- and information-technologies into the health care industry will result in a significant shift in how new bio-based s...

State-by-State Study on the Bioscience Industry

State-by-State Study on the Bioscience Industry

Employment and other economic activity in the biosciences has grown dramatically in the past three years, and states working to attract bioscience com...

Pennsylvania: Home of the “Biosciences Continuum”

Pennsylvania: Home of the “Biosciences Continuum”

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is home to the entire continuum of the biosciences— world-class research; emerging biotechnology, medical device and ...

Location Decisions of BioConvergence Industries

Location Decisions of BioConvergence Industries

With so much activity surrounding biosciences, health care, and bio-related information technologies, how will private sector companies choose their n...

California - Burnishing the Golden State

California - Burnishing the Golden State

California has an irresistible energy. It’s the kind of energy and spirit that flows from a strong sense of curiosity and determination, from an irrep...

Canadian Biotech Clusters

Canadian Biotech Clusters

If there is one thing I have learned from my days in the economic development world, it is that Canada truly is well known for its generous R&D tax cr...

High-Tech Industry Slowly Turns the Corner

High-Tech Industry Slowly Turns the Corner

A new study by the AeA, the nation's largest high-tech trade association, shows that the U.S. tech industry shed 25,000 jobs in 2004, dropping to 5.6 ...