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Dayton
Business Journal
Biotech
jobs booming in Ohio
by Laura Englehart, Staff Reporter
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Ohio
has added 8,500
bioscience-related jobs in a little more than a decade, according to a
new
report.
There
were 1,491 jobs created or
retained in the Dayton region in just the past four years alone,
leading to a
huge surge in local biotech employment at hundreds of companies in the
region.
Among the largest new projects in the region is the new Abbott
Laboratories
nutrition plant in Tipp City that is being built at a total cost of
$270
million and will employ 240 people when operational.
Employment
in the industry climbed
16.5 percent from 2000 to 2011, while the number of overall in Ohio
declined,
said the report released Wednesday by Columbus-based BioOhio, a
nonprofit
industry proponent.
Marked
growth was cramped slightly
from 2010 to 2011 when direct employment in the sector dropped slightly
by 230
jobs.
The
industry includes drug
developers, medical devices makers and research laboratories, along
with
agricultural biotechnology.
Within
the western region — which
includes Montgomery County; it’s contiguous counties to the north, west
and
east; and Fayette, Champaign, Shelby, Auglaize and Mercer counties —
there are
about 18,870 bioscience jobs…
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the rest of the article at the
Dayton Business Journal
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