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Chimney Rock at Sunset (photo by M. Forsberg, Nebraska DED) Nebraska is poised to grow its industry with a strong economy and support from its state government, universities, and local businesses. Nebraska’s balanced economic base and vast market potential have already provided a profitable home for five Fortune 500 Companies: Berkshire Hathaway, ConAgra Foods, Mutual of Omaha, Peter Kiewit Sons, and Union Pacific Railroad. The state is actively interested in expanding its economic base with life science industries and has allocated 16 percent of its tobacco settlement funding to biomedical research.

The Nebraska Informatics Center for the Life Sciences (NICLS), comprised of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), the University of Nebraska-Omaha (UNO), and Creighton University (CU), facilitates the integration of biocomputing/informatics disciplines with the life sciences and coordinates cross-campus and state-wide efforts in bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, pharmacoinformatics, computational chemistry, and computational biology. The center focuses on research and education, while fostering the development of Nebraska's life science industries.

Nebraska’s agricultural industry has readily adopted biotechnology advancements in crop production, increasingly planting higher percentages of genetically modified corn and soybean seed each year. The Nebraska Corn Board encourages education of the safety and beneficial use of biotechnology-based corn.

In 2000, biotechnology was recommended as one of three business areas for economic growth opportunity identified by a Deloitte & Touche Fantus targeted industry study commissioned by the Nebraska Department of Economic Development (NDED) and its partners. In order to successfully develop the identified industries, the Governor encourages communities to develop the infrastructure necessary for such growth, including the development of suburban technology parks, with human and veterinary pharmaceutical businesses being the likeliest candidates.

Most biotechnology companies in Nebraska are located in Omaha, such as Biovance Technologies, Inc., and Lincoln, such as LI-COR Biosciences.

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