About InterTech
InterTech Park is an 180-acre urban science and technology development area located in Shreveport, Louisiana USA near 7 universities and colleges, a robust medical corridor, and Barksdale Air Force Base. InterTech’s long-term goal is to establish northwest Louisiana as a nationally recognized multi faceted technology center.
Working with InterTech to achieve this goal are eleven north Louisiana higher education partners coordinated by the Consortium for Education, Research and Technology (CERT). The Park is physically located to take advantage of the sizeable medical and research infrastructure represented by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and three private medical institutions, all adjacent to or within InterTech.
InterTech provides its tenants with access to academic facilities, researchers, core equipment laboratories, animal care, multi-tenant wet lab and office space, land for building, venture capital, business planning assistance and financial incentives.
History
Initiated in 1998, InterTech Park is a community response to the need to diversify the economy of northwest Louisiana by encouraging the growth of technology-based industries. Sponsored by the Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana, InterTech is located in an urban Brownfields area proximate to 80% of the region’s technical/scientific/medical personnel. The InterTech Master Plan is a multi-decade strategy to create an environmentally friendly, worker-amenable, and technology-stimulating campus that enables the proliferation of life sciences, digital media and other emerging industries.
InterTech has many facilities with a total over 400,000 sq. ft. of laboratory, manufacturing and office space, on over 60 acres of land with plenty of room to grow.
InterTech’s central facility, InterTech 1, is a $12.2 million incubator for new bioscience, medial, and technical businesses. Companies in the 60,000-square-foot InterTech 1 facility share equipment in a core laboratory and have experts analyze their business plans on a yearly basis. Companies from life science, pharmaceutical, digital media, and venture capital industries reside in InterTech1.
Pharmaceutical Presence
Since 1965, north Louisiana has been home to a number of pharmaceutical companies, including Rucker Pharmacal, UAD Pharmaceuticals, Boots Pharmaceuticals, LuChem Pharmaceuticals, Sage Pharmaceuticals, IVAX Pharmaceuticals, Knoll Pharmaceuticals, BASF, and Red River Pharma. As a result, the region has a trained pharmaceutical research, development and manufacturing workforce that is complemented by the educational, research and clinical trial resources of LSU Health Shreveport and the School of Pharmacy at University of Louisiana – Monroe.
Red River Pharma, LLC an innovator in the development of more than a dozen prescription medical food products started at InterTech and grew to be acquired by an international pharma company that currently operates manufacturing and research facilities in the InterTech.
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North Louisiana has 11 technical, two-year, four-year and graduate colleges and universities that support regional workforce demands. The Consortium for Education Research and Technology of North Louisiana is a unique collaboration of these north Louisiana higher education institutions formed to match their research and educational resources with the workforce needs of regional businesses.
Approximately 14,000 students in two-year and technical college programs and 34,000 students in four-year and graduate universities are taught by 2,400 faculty. A substantial number of academic degrees are offered through these institutions, including 58 associate degrees, 167 baccalaureate degrees, 72 masters degrees and 20 doctoral degrees.
To support the laboratory technician needs of the biotech industry, Bossier Parish Community College developed an Associates Degree in General Science with a Biotechnology Technical Competency Area (TCA) . There are four TCA courses: Introduction to Biotechnology, Cell Culture, Bioinstrumentation, and an Internship. The course work teaches hands-on laboratory skills augmented with lectures.
The Biomedical Research Foundation and InterTech recognize that to achieve the long term goal of establishing northwest Louisiana as a nationally recognized technology center requires technologically competent high school graduates, whether they enter the workforce upon graduation or continue with higher education. Toward that end, BRF co-sponsors eleven K-12 education programs designed to improve math and science competency. These programs can be found in the EDventures section at www.laedventures.org or www.biomed.org.
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