Science|Business
Policy Analysis: Policy
Published: 01 July 2010
Innovation in the US Heartland

Lori Valigra, Correspondent

Silicon Valley and Boston aren’t the only areas looking for new ways to innovate, as Midwest ‘rust belt’ states set out new strategies.


Investors fly over a vast expanse between Boston and California when seeking start-up partners. Now Midwest US states are trying to make themselves a stopover point by creating new models to fund and accelerate innovations from labs to commercialisation.

Their efforts, including collaborative combinations of regional, state, and individual universities, come as yet another US study, this one by Battelle, found the US still is leading the world in biomedical...

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