Gov. Mike Leavitt recently introduced a foldout map highlighting Utah's technology and recreation centers.
        "IT forms this area of connection between our recreation-minded, high quality of life and our remarkable level of technological savvy that we have in this state and the successes that we have enjoyed," Leavitt.
        The map will be followed up with additional maps marking Utah's economic ecosystems, among them biotechnology, digital media, medical devices and Web services.
        "People are not totally aware of the level of innovation, the long history of ideas that have greatly changed the world, that have come from Utah," says Rod Linton, director of the Utah Technology Alliance. The state is currently home to more than 43 laboratories for research and development and 159 firms specializing in surgical and medical instrument apparatus, according to the Utah Biomedical Industry Profile issued by the Economic Development Corporation of Utah last summer.
        Last spring, Massachusetts-based Fresenius Medical Care announced a huge expansion of its Ogden plant. The $65 million project will allow the company to manufacture single-use dialyzers used in kidney dialysis. "Advances in technology and manufacturing processes make this step possible," says Fresenius CE Ben J. Lipps.
        HyClone Laboratories, a Logan-based biomedical firm, announced plans to guild a $12 million expansion at its Logan plant. The city of Logan offered the company an incentive package that included tax increment funds and performance-related incentives. HyClone officials expect to add an additional 279 employees with the new addition. "HyClone's ground-breaking research is a great example of the pioneering technology being developed in Utah," says Logan mayor Douglas Thompson.

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