February 9, 2012
After spending $25 million of taxpayers' money on a biotech firm's promising stem cell project, the state of California could do nothing but watch as the company canceled the project and withdrew from stem cell research entirely. James Fossett, a senior fellow at the Rockefeller Institute, says there is a cautionary tale in this story for the many states using taxpayer dollars to stimulate jobs in a wide range of technologies.
Fossett outlines what happened in California and describes the lessons he sees for states in a commentary now on the Institute's Web site.
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