The Bioscience & Technology Business Center (BTBC) is a Lawrence, Kansas not-for profit corporation whose mission is to foster the development and growth of the life sciences industry in the local area. The BTBC’s main objectives are to help:
- Grow and diversify the local economy
- Create high-quality, high-paying jobs
- Increase the local tax base
- Stimulate the creation of wealth in the community
The BTBC is more than modern lab and office space. It also provides professional business services to its tenants and clients. The BTBC shares the goal of helping build successful companies that commercialize innovative technologies developed at KU, KUMC, and by local entrepreneurs.
The BTBC accomplishes its objectives by implementing the following strategies:
- Developing industry resources by providing an infrastructure of professional talent, modern facilities, specialized equipment and capital around targeted core competencies currently emerging at KU and KUMC, and the private sector
- Creating an industry climate that encourages, supports, and sustains the growth of bioscience and technology firms and the commercialization of university research in Lawrence and Kansas City
- Implementing a business attraction plan to grow a critical mass of life sciences firms by raising the profile of the community and recruiting outside firms, talent, and capital
