Leading States' Initiatives in Biosciences

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Forty-one states have set up some type of program to support bioscience development. Though most have focused on tax credits and private sector support, such as venture capital, the 30 states listed below have also used public efforts and funds to drive bioscience initiatives.

State Bioscience Plan Year Adopted State Biotech Specialists Using Tobacco $ Funded Initiatives Commercial Focus State Incubators 
Alabama * 
Arkansas 2000 * 
California $600M 
Colorado * * 
Connecticut  (Tech: 1998) * 
Delaware * $85M 
Florida 1998 * 
Georgia * $300M * 
Hawaii 1999 
Illinois * $2B 
Kansas * 
Louisiana (Tech: 2000) * * 
Maine * 
Maryland 1991 * * * 
Massachusetts  (Tech: 1993) * * * 
Michigan 2000 * * $1B * * 
Minnesota 2001 * * * 
Missouri 2000 * *
New Jersey * 
New Mexico 1999 * * 
New York NA $1B 
Ohio * * * 
Oregon 1999 * 
Pennsylvania * $100M * 
Tennessee * 
Texas $800M * 
Utah * * 
Vermont (Tech: 1996) 
Virginia * * 
Wisconsin * $317M 

Source: State Government Initiatives in Biotechnology 2001, prepared for the Biotechnology Industry Organization by Battelle Memorial Institute and State Science & Technology Institute






White Papers & Special Reports

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The Role of Analytics in Transforming Healthcare
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Sharing many of the data challenges and opportunities faced by Healthcare, the Life Sciences industry remains focused on delivering new, innovative therapies and solutions to patients in a cost effective, timely and safe way. With spiraling R&D costs, new methods such as adaptive trials, and never ending need for deep pharmacovigilance, the Life Sciences companies that effectively use analytics to explore, monitor and optimize their business will rapidly become the new leaders.

Oracle’s strategy—built upon Enterprise Health Analytics and Health Data Warehouse Foundation—provides a powerful, practical, and extensible approach to delivering the IT analytics infrastructure required to confront the worldwide healthcare challenge.



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BPM-Based Case Management Approach to Optimizing Clinical Trial Efficiency
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Business Process Management (BPM) software offers liberation in the planning and management of clinical trials today. SmartBPM provides the components for automating critical clinical trial processes ranging from protocol development and patient enrollment to site management and investigator payments. Advantages are:

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Next-gen Cloud-based eClinical
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New technologies are available to leverage Cloud Computing in  managing clinical trial data. This paper discusses a next generation eClinical
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  • Speeds trial set up
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It is offered with either software-as-a-service (SaaS), or turnkey infrastructure options in which the user organization operates their own cloud using their IT teams, within their data centers. Read this paper to learn and decide how best to leverage cloud computing’s many strengths for your organization’s  particular needs.



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Web Symposia
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Bio-IT World proudly presents the Bio-IT World Web Symposia Series covering a broad array of topics within the life sciences and drug development enterprise.

Leveraging BPM to Increase Efficiencies in Clinical Trial Case Management
August 3, 2010 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EST
Sponsored by: Pegasystems
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