Florida Experience with Scripps Illustrates Difficulty of Building a Biotech Cluster from the Top Down
August 26, 2015
August 26, 2015 | Jeb Bush's presidential run has brought renewed attention to one of the headline achievements of his tenure as governor of Florida: luring a new Scripps Research Institute campus to the state with generous subsidies. Twelve years later, the project's success at creating jobs or a center of innovation appears dubious, providing lessons for other governments hoping they can replicate the biotech booms in Boston or San Francisco. Los Angeles Times