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Life Sciences

Vitamin Enriched

Northridge, Calif.–based Pharmavite, maker of Nature Made vitamins and Soyjoy bars, produces more than 120 different kinds of supplements and fills more than 120 million bottles with 15 billion tablets, capsules, and softgels per year.

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Life Sciences

Challenges Are Opportunities

From very humble beginnings, the biotechnology industry in Massachusetts has grown to be one of the most significant regional clusters of any industry in the world.

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A Better Mousetrap

If the path being beaten to Texas’ front door is any indication, there’s a better way to do things in the Lone Star State. Giving businesses some certainty with which to risk investment capital and expand their enterprises has been central to the state’s economic success.

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Area Spotlights

Global Ties Spur Prosperity

North Dakota’s economy is pulsating, thanks in large part to the Bakken shale oil boom, which has made the state the fourth largest oil-producing state.

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Energy Report

Charged Concept

Early this month Ford Motor Co., as part of an aggressive electrification strategy that includes the launch of five electrified vehicles in North America by 2012 and Europe by 2013, named its “20 Cool Places to Charge in the U.S.”

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Energy Report

Dynamic Data Duo

Google likes to use the power usage effectiveness, or PUE, metric to calculate the energy costs of housing and cooling servers on server farms such as the one located in Lenoir, N.C.

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Online Insider

Tech Nexus

Tech Nexus: Innovation and lifestyle draw Google to Kitchener-Waterloo.

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Energy Report

Canada’s Lithium Ion Battery Makers Branch Out of a Glutted EV Market

Lithium ion rules energy storage platforms for electric vehicles, while auto manufacturers play kingmaker to the companies that produce battery packs. Without major EV contracts, however, many battery companies struggle to commercialize outside of government-funded research and demonstration programs.

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Area Spotlights

Vegas: The New Hot Spot

With exports and alternative energy production rising in Nevada, the economic prospects of the Silver State glow with the golden hue of sunnier times.

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International Update

On the Rebound? Or Never Came Down?

FDI levels are rising in India. So are actual projects, thanks to government approvals and infrastructure needs.

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Area Spotlights

Talent for Tech

Innovation spawns fast-growing companies.

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Online Insider

Going Up?

by Adam Bruns

Going Up?: New projects making Kevlar, tires and elevators put a bounce into South Carolina’s economy.

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International Update

Coke Sews Silver Lining Into Plant Design

Rain reuse via syphonic drainage is among this new facility’s LEED attributes.

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Investment Profile

Healing the World

The biggest breakthrough in fighting the global battle against diabetes didn’t come in a lab in San Diego, Boston or one of the other well-known U.S. life-science clusters.

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North American Reports

Quick-Fill Capability; Honda Diversifies; Northeast Aces ACT; Looking West;Where’s the Building?; New Digs for Novo

by Adam Bruns

North American Reports: Quick-Fill Capability; Honda Diversifies; Northeast Aces ACT; Looking West;Where’s the Building?; New Digs for Novo

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International Update

Belfast by a Nose

Allen & Overy is one of the world’s most active law firms, with more than 5,000 employees in 26 countries,

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Area Spotlights

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Unemployment is at 12 percent in California. gavin newsom

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Life Sciences

To Life!

Some life sciences companies, like strands of DNA, are narrowly focused on their sphere of influence. Others resemble full-body life systems, with emphasis on the “life.”

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Life Sciences

New Milken study: The U.S. must act to remain a biomedical leader.

U.S. policy makers need to take a series of actions to keep the nation in its perch as the global leader in the biomedical industry. That’s the conclusion of a recent report by the Milken Institute.

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Life Sciences

Florida’s Research Power

Over the past several years, Florida’s bioscience industry has continued to grow, attracting some of the world’s leading research institutes.

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Online Insider

Nashville Rising

by Adam Bruns

Nashville Rising: A year after devastating floodwaters struck Music City, we take a look back at a model local disaster response, and why one area company decided to rebuild instead of relocate.

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Area Spotlights

Energizing Development

San Antonio and its municipal utility join forces to establish a clean technology cluster.

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Features

An Elastic Climate for Growth

A sudden wave of capital into plastics and chemicals manufacturing opens doors of opportunity for innovative startups.

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Area Spotlights

Clean Economy

New investments keep Pennsylvania green.

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