“Companies from around the world have discovered that our state can offer them a favorable business environment, a motivated workforce, and a support system that helps make success possible. The message is clear: Alabama offers the advantages that growth-minded companies are looking for.”

— Greg Canfield, Secretary,
Alabama Department of Commerce

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The Alabama Department of Commerce is the state’s lead economic development agency. In addition to business development activities, Commerce promotes exporting and international opportunities for Alabama companies, assists small businesses and houses the state’s primary workforce development program, AIDT.

HudsonAlpha is a life science business campus accelerating new therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other innovations to the marketplace by co-locating genomic R&D, workforce training, startups and established bioscience enterprises. Today, 1000+ people work on campus, which is home to more than 45 biotech companies and the Institute’s non-profit genomic research laboratories.

From the July / August 2023 issue of Business Facilities