To accelerate the growth of bioscience research and industry in Kansas, the Kansas Bioscience Authority (KBA), Kansas State University (K-State), and the city of Olathe joined together to create the Kansas Bioscience Park, situated on 92 acres in Johnson County, near Kansas Highway 7 and College Boulevard. Surrounding the park are nearly 1,000 acres of outstanding land for development, offering room for a significantly expanded Kansas Bioscience Park in the years to come.

The park is unique in the nation because it will provide expansion space for existing bioscience companies, incubation space for early stage firms, and expansion of K-State’s academic and research capabilities for bioscience firms in the Kansas City region. The park will generate a significant positive economic impact and advance the state’s national bioscience leadership.

The KBA is developing the Kansas Bioscience Park Venture Accelerator, an incubator for fledgling bioscience companies. In addition, the KBA is actively marketing 42 acres of land in the park, which will be given to qualifying bioscience companies and used to attract life science start-ups that spin off from research at the K-State Olathe Innovation Campus and companies around the nation. The K-State Olathe Innovation Campus for post-doctoral research will occupy 38 acres of the Kansas Bioscience Park.

The synergies of research between the entrepreneurial and industrial presence of the KBA and K-State within the Kansas Bioscience Park will support collaborations leading to rapid development and deployment of technologies from the lab to the marketplace. Underlying all these areas of technology discovery and commercialization are the area’s strong bioscience education and workforce development efforts.

For more information, please call Gary Micheel at the Kansas Bioscience Authority, (913) 397-8300, or e-mail micheel@kansasbioauthority.org.