Mike Rynchek
Spyder Trap Online Marketing

Today, the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota debuted its new online tool, BIOMAP, to encourage and drive innovation in Minnesota.  BIOMAP, as quoted from the organization’s website, is an “interactive mapping tool, representing all of Minnesota’s bioscience industry, and was created by the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota as a way to create awareness of the state’s bioscience capabilities.”

BIOMAP achieves this goal by having a highly searchable database of Minnesota’s bioscience assets.  The BIOMAP enables users to locate companies on an interactive map via geographic searches – such as by city, county, or legislative district – or through industry searches – such as medical devices, pharmaceuticals, animal health and renewable energy to name a few.

According to Jeremy Lenz, vice-president of operations for the BioBusiness Alliance, the hope is that by viewing data points on a map, people will start to see our companies and institutions not as isolated pockets of innovation, but rather in the larger context of Minnesota.

In the end, the vision to create a more cohesive network of Minnesota’s bioscience community has been achieved, thus fostering innovation not only in Minnesota, but ultimately to the rest of the country and to the world.

Read more about BIOMAP in the Star Tribune’s Patent Pending Blog here.

Learn more about the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota and the BIOMAP project by visiting their website.