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BIOTECH: The Southeast corner of BIO
Live from the international BIO botech industry conference in San Diego
It was the Southeast corner of biotech - sort of.
Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee are usually staunch competitors when it comes to economic development. But on the tradeshow floor of the BIO International Convention in San Diego this week, the four states found themselves side-by-side trying to recruit biotech companies to their respective states.
It wasn’t exactly happenstance. Officials from Georgia, which is sponsoring next year’s BIO conference, said they convinced their neighboring competitors to get their booth spaces together so they could present something of a united Southeastern front to biotech executives and visitors from around the world. They also hope to work together when it comes to putting on the 2009 BIO International in Atlanta next year.
Of course each state did its best to make sure visitors remembered their particular states.
Tennessee, for instance, raffled off a limited edition bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey. Recruiters from Florida handed out SPF 15 lip balm. Georgia gave passers-by free Cokes, home-grown peanuts and pecans. North Carolina may have had the most unique gimme, though: Among other goodies, its representatives were handing out plastic bags of dirt from eastern N.C. - a place, boosters pointed out, that was ripe for bio-agriculture development.
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