Updated May. 4, 2012 at 7:58 a.m.

Premium Lock What new 'BioEconomy Blueprint' says to N.C.: Opportunities

Published: 2012-05-04 07:56:00
Updated: 2012-05-04 07:58:57

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Analysis: This new federal BioEconomy Blueprint could lead to new opportunities for the nation. And it might open some new doors for us to keep growing North Carolina's life-science base, currently the third-largest in the nation with more than 500 companies employing more than 58,000 people. Those jobs pay an average of $78,000 a year - nearly twice the state's typical private-sector wage.

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North Carolina has had the for site to look to the future in biotech, biofuels, and other technologies, and the guts to turn this knowledge into high paying jobs for us in North Carolina.

Norway, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, recently asked (and paid for) Stephen Burke, President of The North Csrolins Biofuels Center to help Norway to look to the biotech/biofuels success in NC, as Norway looks at their main source of wealth, offshore oil and gas, diminish in future decades.
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