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creating and keeping jobs in the region,
and making Central Mass. a hot spot
on the map.
"We don't want to be the place where
companies just do research to scale
and leave," said Weaver. "We want to be
where they stay forever."
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100,000
200000
300,000
400,000
2015 2017 2019 2021 2023
408,376
Biotechnology
employees in the U.S.,
2015-2023
Source: IBISWorld
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Industry leaders are hoping to leverage the comparatively inexpensive value proposition of lab space in Worcester to beat out
Boston and Cambridge.
