Smart City's weekly radio show will focus on the growth of biotechnology as an economic development strategy.
Read the economic development plan for almost any city of significant size in America, and you will likely find "biotech" high on the list of promising strategies the city is pursuing.But is it?A new study from the Brookings Institutions Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy questions whether any but a handful of cities can successfully build a biotech cluster.Joseph Cortright, one of Oregons leading economic analysts, is the co-author of the study, Signs of Life: The Growth of Biotechnology Centers in the U.S. Bruce Katz is the founding director of the Brookings Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, the studys publisher.We'll talk to Joseph and Bruce about the growth of biotechnology on the next "Smart City." Listen Sunday, 9 a.m. on the WKNO-FM Stations and again Tuesday, 9 a.m. Or you can hear the show streamed live on the Web.
Thanks to Sheila Edmundson
FULL STORY: Signs of Life: The Growth of Biotechnology Centers
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