Dotcoms may come and go, but people always need drugs, and big pharmaceutical firms need their smaller biotechnology brethren to do much of the basic research for their future products.

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Steve Cottle, Katie Jorgensen, and Charlie Tierney are participating in the workshop and previewing ideas from their upcoming research on the future of the federal workforce.

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"When someone as large as GE comes into the space, you know they have done their research and they see a very big future, " said Perry of Nissan, which is partnering with a company called AeroVironment for home charging stations.

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