NoCo fertile ground for biotech cos.

In Northern Colorado, all of the big elements necessary for growing a healthy biotechnology sector – a research university, government laboratories, habits of entrepreneurship, an energetic trade organization – are in place.

“Our goal is to grow the state’s biotech work force and to attract investment,´ said Denise Brown, executive director of the Colorado Bioscience Association. “We provide support for the small start-up companies that create high-paying jobs. Even if the companies are eventually bought out, the jobs stay. The entrepreneur then goes out and starts another company, continuing to create more jobs.”

Of the 168 companies statewide listed in the…