Long Island

Long Island is home to at least 30% of New York's firms in each of biotechnology, medical devices, pharmaceuticals technology and life-systems technology. Long Island stands alone as the only region which dominates the state in all four sub-sectors of bioscience technology. Of the 273 bioscience technology firms in New York state, Long Island is home to:

	34% of all Biotechnology firms
	38% of all Medical devices firms
	35% of all Pharmaceutical technology firms
	33% of all Life systems technology firms

40% of the total bioscience technology employment in New York State is on Long Island. Between 1990 and 1996, Long Island experienced:

	a 68% growth in the absolute number of biotechnology firms located there
	a 220% increase in the number of local industrial biotechnology jobs
	a doubling of its share of intra-state biotechnology industry employment from 20% to over 40 percent.

Long Island has added substantially to New York's population of biotechnology firms and to its total biotechnology employment levels, and it has improved its position vis-a-vis other regions in the state by both of these measures (job growth and firm growth). Long Island has also achieved this record through both sustained local entrepreneurship and internal business growth.

The region is home to a significant number of companies in the industry, including Del Laboratories, NBTY, Inc., Pall Corporation, and E-Z-EM, Inc. SUNY- Stony Brook is among the top fifty universities in the country in biological sciences, based on the National Science Foundation's rankings of university research and development expenditures for 1997.