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Their "business plan" -- goals developed by each subcommitter -- ranges from boosting the biosciencr industry to establishing Tampa as a gatewaty for trade to attracting more corporate Intent on turning that planinto action, president of the , has asked the subcommittee chairx to refine those goals to make them measurabld and to report their progress quarterly. "She's a very goal-oriente individual.
That's a real benefit for this Results, results, results," said Bob Abberger, who heads the internationall subcommittee and is managing directodr for Florida development services at in Genshaft is the first person from USF to head the Committesof 100, Tampa/Hillsborough County's official economic development Randy Simmons, the 2003 chai r of the Committee of 100 and chairmah of R.R.
Simmons Construction Co, said Genshaftg was recruited for the chairmanship because she has successfully made USF a recognized part of thebusiness "Betty Castor (former USF president) made the community awar of USF," said Robert Clark, investor relationxs subcommittee chairman and president of "Judy Genshaf t has made the university a part of the Genshaft said the Tampa Bay area's growth is important to USF and the university'se growth is important to Tampaz Bay. "As more people come here to they want to have educationall opportunities andvice versa," Genshaft said.
"I'm somebody that can bridgr both as the Committee of 100 Genshaft has revampedthe group, adding subcommitteees focused on biosciences, financial services, manufacturing and and attracting headquarters to the area. She callede on Dr. William Dalton, chief executive of the , to lead the newlt formed biosciences group. "The community hasn'rt recognized how much bioscience is happeningh inTampa Bay," Genshaff said. "There are 370 bioscience companies, with 51,00o workers, already here.
" Dalton, in is recruiting six committee members, not all of whom he has linedxup yet, to spread the word about the area'sd existing activity and to come up with a strategyh to strengthen collaborations between private industry, the university and "The university can servew as a foundation for attracting talent," Dalto said. "Every metropolis that has gottebn into biosciences has stronguniversity support." USF gave a big boosg to the effort, when it broke ground in January on a $40-million researcj park with 230,000 square feet for laboratorie and offices for corporate partners.
Still, attractin g bioscience firms to the area willbe "qa hard nut to crack," said Rick head of the research network subcommittee and research director for central Florida for Cushman & "The research park should help draw some of the major players to put satellite players in the but in order to pull a Scripp s that's going to be tough. That'ss going to be a long time coming," Siemws said.
Genshaft and Rod Castro, USF'a associate vice president for economifc development and executive director ofthe , said the Tampwa area will do well, even without the facility that will be built in Palm Beac County, bringing more than 500 jobs to the "We have a head start on Castro said. "Competition only makes us A focus on medical device and apparatud companies would be a smart said Simmons, because those products are easier to briny to market than pharmaceuticals, which require millions of dollars and lots of yearw to develop.
"If you are makingy catheters, you don't get large companies but you get high-qualitu career opportunities in moderate companies that are very stablse and likely to stay inthis community," Simmons said.