Source: http://www.ktec.com/sec_bioscience/section/KEGA/overview.htm

Economic Growth through Discovery and Innovation

On April 19, 2004, Governor Kathleen Sebelius signed into law the Kansas Economic Growth Act, after it was overwhelmingly passed by the Kansas House of Representatives (121-2) and the Kansas Senate (38-2). The passage of the act demonstrates Kansas’ pioneering spirit and commitment to advancing the state’s bioscience industry and research base. With more than a $500 million investment over the next 10 to 12 years, Kansas will build off the state’s homegrown strengths in the biosciences and ensure the growth of bioscience-related jobs and economic prosperity. The Kansas Bioscience Initiative will allow the state to recruit the best and the brightest people to the state’s universities, facilitate the expansion of the bioscience industry base, build a high quality, competitive bioscience workforce, and foster a technologically rich environment where the products of bioscience-related research and development can be turned into jobs.

Kansas’ investment in the biosciences is comparable to the states that have staked their claims on the future of the bioscience industry by dedicating hundreds of millions of state dollars to drive research and commercialization including: Georgia ($350M), Wisconsin ($317M), Texas ($850M), Ohio ($1.6B), Missouri ($190M) and Washington ($750M).