Noted: But Wisconsin’s blooming biotech industry doesn’t just protect corn. It helps protect the state’s economic interests, too.
The industry in Wisconsin, home to more than 400 biotech companies employing 34,000 people, is among the nation’s largest.
On the UW campus alone, the $841 million plowed into sponsored academic research and development ranks the university third nationally behind Johns Hopkins and the University of California, San Francisco, in research and development clout, according to a study from Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council.