When it comes to economic development in Wisconsin, biotechnology has been grabbing all the headlines. That’s understandable in one sense because the state largely missed out on the silicon revolution of the 1980s and has been a Midwest leader in the life sciences.
Yet when it comes to actual job creation and income generation, computers still rule, says a top University of Wisconsin-Madison professor.
“Epic Systems hires more people every month than all the biotech companies in Wisconsin combined,” said Guri Sohi, past chairman of the UW-Madison computer science department.