Next Steps for Illinois What needs to be done to keep Illinois moving in the right direction? Continue to establish with the practice of careful venture funding for university start-up firms. Market life science and biotech industry by coordinated strong medical research and university patent offices Count the number of times your business park or university development area has had a rolling "black-out" and call your West coast contacts. Continue or enhance multi-year planning to stay at the forefront of technology. For example, many are focusing on bioinformatics-the meshing of supercomputing and biotechnology to draw treatments and information from recent gains in the mapping of plant and animal DNA. Draw on the state's agricultural heritage. It is becoming more important in drug development and global public health issues.