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Governor announces another economic development plan at Regents meeting

August 3, 2004 By admin

Governor Tom Vilsack kicked off the Iowa State Board of Regents this morning in Sioux City by announcing that a prime focus of this meeting will a new economic development plan. Vilsack said the plan, developed by Battell’s Technology Partnership Practice of Columbus, Ohio, says planned implementation will produce more than 16-thousand high-tech jobs by the state by 2014. The plan recommends boosting research and development at the state’s universities and then developing new bio-tech businesses with that research. Total cost of the plan: 302-Million dollars. The regents will discuss their role in the new economic-development effort.

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