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BUSINESS REPORT: Kansas – Agricultural Biotechnology Research Is Growing In Kansas

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Senate committee has endorsed spending $404 million in the next fiscal year to construct a new federal research lab at Kansas State University (KSU). The House has already approved $404 million for the project, part of the Department of Homeland Security’s budget for 2014. Earlier this year, Sen.

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State Focus – Kansas: The Sunflower State Is Blooming and Booming

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The state’s largest city, Wichita, is known as the Air Capital of the World due to the prominent role it plays in aviation manufacturing. Wichita’s aviation manufacturers are supported by the National Center for Aviation Training and Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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The states that have put the assets in place today to support a thriving cybersecurity industry—including STEM-oriented higher education programs with cyber-specific degrees and R&D facilities working in tandem with national security agencies, the U.S. military and business—will rule the cyber sector tomorrow. Louisiana, no. In May, Gov.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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This has enabled us to track everything from Most Business Start-Ups to Most Wind Projects Under Construction. We welcome the competition and especially the proliferation of rankings-oriented data sources in nearly every industrial sector. Therefore, in our 2012 report we have refocused this category as a state ranking.

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