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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – If you ask someone in Birmingham if the half a billion dollars in federal research spent here each year is important to the local economy, most everyone would say it is. But if you ask them how important, that would be hard for anyone to answer.

Steven Ceulemans, vice president of innovation and technology with the Birmingham Business Alliance was recently tasked with answering that question, not only for Birmingham, but for the nation.