As KansasBio evolves, one of its priorities is to provide relevant informational resources to the Kansas bioscience community.
Kansas Bioscience and Innovation
Roadmap
To facilitate the process of understanding Kansas' bioscience
assets and opportunities, the Kansas Technology Enterprise
Corporation (KTEC), a founding member of KansasBio,
engaged New Economy Strategies (NES), a Washington based
consultancy, to develop a comprehensive roadmap that
will provide strategic guidance to the state's bioscience
initiative. More than 700 stakeholders across the state
assisted in this research
effort.
Kansas Bioscience Industry
Database
KansasBio is currently developing a central database
of Kansas industry resources. Data from more than 160
Kansas bioscience companies and institutions have been
collected, providing the framework for our initial database.
If your firm or organization is interested in being
listed in our database, please contact KansasBio at
info@kansasbio.org.
Kansas Bioscience Authority
The Kansas
Bioscience Authority was created in April 2004 when
Governor Kathleen Sebelius signed into law the Kansas
Economic Growth Act (KEGA). An independent entity of
the state, it is governed by a Board of Directors composed
of prominent local and national leaders in the areas
of science, technology, and business. The Bioscience
Authority will guide the state in the investment of
over $580 million dollars generated through KEGA.
Agricutural Biotechnology
and the Biosciences in Kansas
Since 2005, more than a dozen bioscience companies specifically
chose Kansas to land or expand. Companies with breakthrough
technologies in agriculture bioscience and animal heath
such as Ventria, edenspace and IdentiGEN selected Kansas
because of our concentration of expertise in these fields.
Companies such as Hill's Pet Nutrition, Bayer and Cargill
are also on that list for the same reasons and because
of our broad community support of biotechnology and
bioscience research. There is no doubt Kansas' leadership
in this "third wave of biotechnology" is important
because of our inherent strengths in agriculture, animal
health, industrial/biomass and plant science. Thank
you to K-State for their leadership in publishing a
white paper about this
critically important industry and Kansas' role within
it
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