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Innovation Gainesville

#1 Asset = KNOWLEDGE!

• Health Technologies: leveraging the region’s expertise in

– Human Life Science • Pharmaceuticals, biologics, devices, equipment, and

research and testing– Agricultural Life Science

• Feedstock, chemicals and fertilizer, and food science/crop management)

• Green Technologies: leveraging the region’s expertise in

– Environmental Engineering– Agricultural Life Science

• chemicals and fertilizer– Alternative Energy

• Biomass, solar and Fuel Cells– Green Building and Design– Clean Technology

• waste management, recycling technologies

Local UF Bioscience Startups

Source: Office of Technology Licensing, University of Florida

Gainesville is the biggest projected gainer, projecting 17.7 percent increase in creative class jobs. Author: Richard Florida. The Atlantic (August 2010)

About Gainesville• #1 in Cities Ranked and Rated (Frommers, 2007)

• Top 50 Best Places to Live and Launch (Fortune Small Business Magazine)

• Top 50 Best Places for Business and Careers last 4 years (Forbes.com)

• #10 Hotspots for Young Professionals to Live & Work (Next Generation Consulting)

• First Solar Feed-In Tariff in U.S.

• 1 of 15 Cities Worldwide participating in the Green Capital – Global Challenge (Carbon War Room)

More Cool Things – Company Successes

• Gainesville’s Grooveshark – Time Magazine’s Top 50 Websites of 2010

• Start-up Roombug featured in WSJ, NYT and Chronicle of Higher Ed

• WiPower, a GTEC company, is acquired by a Fortune 500 company

• InterMed Biomedical, 352 Media, O2BKids! & Nuclear Medicine Professionals make Inc. Magazine’s list of 5K fastest growing companies

• Banyan Biomarkers awarded $26.3 Million DoD contract to develop diagnostic blood test for trauma

• Prioria awarded $2.8M contract with Canadian Dept of National Defense

What else is happening to drive jobs and innovation?

Florida Innovation Hub at UF

Innovation Square

Innovation Square

Progress Corporate Park

Sid Martin BDI

Cade Museum

To Register: http://conferences.dce.ufl.edu/innovationshowcase/

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