Source: Jim Shamp, NC BIOTECH CENTER, WRAL TECHWIRE, 10/15/15

It was a short question that John Hardin had to field with a long answer. Yet he started with a significant nugget: “North Carolina’s key asset is its economic development ecosystem.”Hardin, executive director of the North Carolina Department of Commerce Office of Science, Technology & Innovation, was a panelist in a “debate” forum at the BioMarine Business Convention in Wilmington this week.

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