Profiles of Recent Oregon Biotech Transplants
By Kate McPherron   

Recent success stories highlight key elements of what brought these companies to Oregon.

Welch Allyn

• Located in Oregon when it acquired Beaverton-based Protocol Systems in 1990
• Appreciated Oregon's strong R&D tax credits
• Received Oregon Economic Development Council (OEDC) incentive grants for workforce development in 2005

For more, read the complete 2010 Welch-Allyn profile at:
http://www.oregonbio.org/News/BiOQuarterlyNewsletterQ32010/OBAProfileWelchAllyn/tabid/377/Default.aspx

Genentech

• Favorable tax climate as a single-sales-factor state, ". . . effectively not penalizing [us] for adding jobs and facilities in the state of Oregon."
• Available development-ready land with adequate infrastructure
• Ease and efficiency in permitting
• High-quality available labor force that included clean-room experience from Intel and others
• Workforce development with Portland Community College (PCC); "about half of the technician-level positions at Genentech’s Hillsboro site have been filled with students from the PCC program."

For more, read the complete 2010 Genentech profile at:
http://www.oregonbio.org/News/BiOQuarterlyNewsletterQ22010/BiOQuarterlyCompanyProfileGenentech/tabid/343/Default.aspx



Kate McPherron provides strategic communications consulting to organizations in bioscience, energy efficiency, engineering and high tech. Kate’s history includes running successful low-budget, tight-deadline product launches and company introductions; ongoing product/PR management; as well as writing and coordinating documentation projects for large, regulated companies. Key to Kate’s work is unearthing, defending and persuading a viewpoint, often communicating technical information to a less-savvy audience. Contact Kate at kmcpherron@gmail.com