Iowa needs to take steps to grow its bioscience industry, an area that added high-paying jobs even during the recession, a new report shows.
Iowa added about 625 jobs, a 4.5 percent increase from 2007 to 2008, the first year of the U.S. recession, a report from the Battelle Memorial Institute showed. Nationally, bioscience jobs grew 1.4 percent in the same time.
"It's exciting ... that even through this recession we've seen growth in bioscience, and we've been growing significantly ahead of the nation," said Gov. Terry Branstad. He released the report Thursday with Innovate Iowa, a group of business and academic leaders.
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