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Worcester Success in Biotech, but, Needs More Lab Space
Worcester's biotech sector is emerging as a regional economic success story while Boston faces an oversupply of empty lab space. In an interview with the Boston Globe's Shira Schoenberg, she discusses how Worcester has built a thriving biotech cluster through strategic investments in infrastructure like the Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives (MBI) incubator, partnerships between local officials and private industry, and leverage of its academic institutions including WPI and UMass Medical School. The city has reversed decades of population decline and manufacturing loss by creating…
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