A decade ago, South Florida embarked upon a quest to build a life sciences cluster. Their first act was to lure Scripps Research away from San Diego. Then, a few years, ago, they tried to lure Jackson Labs away from Maine. In between, the state of Florida and Palm Beach County have spent a combined $856 million to land Scripps and Germany's Max Plank Society. When these deals were being crafted, projections of over 44,000 jobs were bandied about. The actual numbers - 944 so far, 509 of them at Scripps, and two dozen biotech start-ups in the region. If you are doing the math, that's a little less than $ 1 million per job.
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