Central Iowa is better positioned to create a technology park than North Carolina was before Research Triangle Park blossomed into a 170-company area with 38,000 employees, Iowa State University President Steven Leath told Iowa. 

“North Carolina didn’t have nearly the assets in place that Iowa has” when leaders decided to try to create a research and development center that eventually became one of the best in the country, Leath told the Iowa Innovation Council in Des Moines.

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