Acknowledgments

The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota would like to thank the following for their work in funding, creating, researching and/or supplying data to the interactive website:

• Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation
• Business Elements Consulting, LLC.
• Mbbnet.umn.edu (and its creator, Bill Hoffman)
• LifeScience Alley
• Minnesota Biosciences magazine (and its publisher, Jay Novak)

We would like to thank the following student research team at St. Cloud State University for their assistance in identifying central Minnesota’s bioscience assets: Tyler Bogda, Travis Skoblick, Quentin Felix, and Deb Larson, under the direction of Professor Barry Kirchoff.

We would also like to thank Karen Moe, graduate student at the University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, for her tireless work that helped made this project possible.

Additionally, the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota would like to thank AllOut Marketing Inc. for the design and development of our overall website.