Source: http://bio.org/local/battelle2006/Kansas.pdf

In 2005, the Kansas Bioscience Authority, created by the Kansas Economic Growth Act of 2004, was rolled out. The Authority is charged to develop a range of programs including programs for faculty recruitment, matching of major federal awards, facilities construction, bioscience development districts and workforce programs. The state’s ultimate goal is to provide appropriations to the Authority based on incremental tax revenue available from growing the bioscience sector, projected to be $580 million over a decade. An initial appropriation of $7.5 million supports creation of a cluster/commercialization function with pre-seed funding capability.

With staff support from the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC), the Authority commissioned a roadmap that narrowed the Act’s broad identification of bioscience sectors and identified four key targets of opportunity: human and animal health, animal health and food safety, biologically inspired materials and bioproducts. The state planning process was mirrored in Kansas City, where the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute – a steering collaborative of eight bioscience institutions on both sides of the border with Missouri – identified its own more precise targets and reached about halfway toward its goal of stimulating $500 million in annual external grant support to area institutions. The Kansas City region has identified its own sectoral targets, with a particular focus on animal health.