Florida Pursues High-Tech Employment Strategies

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