Originally Published MX November/December
2001

BUSINESS PLANNING
& TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

Florida Pursues
High-Tech Employment Strategies

The Sunshine State
has been extremely active in ensuring that it attracts and keeps high-tech companies—including
those in medtech. Florida’s universities offer research support and faculty
that have direct experience in biomedical technology. These institutions also
provide a constant, trained labor pool. The colleges of medicine, engineering,
and pharmacy at Florida’s universities are among the resources that support
Florida’s existing biomedical technology industry.



The
state’s efforts don’t stop with skilled researchers and managers.
Florida’s community colleges offer customized training options for workers
in medtech companies. Community college programs have been developed especially
to strengthen and grow Florida’s biomedical technology workforce with this
industry in mind, says Ann Patrick, director of marketing at Enterprise Florida
(Orlando). In all, Florida’s 47 technical institutions provide training