About the K-State Olathe Innovation Campus

Kansas State University's Olathe Innovation Campus will be the academic research presence within the Kansas Bioscience Park, providing a direct portal to K-State's broad capabilities and its many resources on the Manhattan campus. The campus will focus on commercially viable applied research and technology discovery in animal health, plant science, food safety and security, bioenergy, and other relevant areas.

Located near College Boulevard and Kansas Highway 7, the Kansas Bioscience Park also encompasses land owned by the Kansas Bioscience Authority (KBA). KBA's land will be developed with bioscience focused wet-lab incubators to advance technology and attract life science start-ups that spin off from research at the KSU campus and existing companies around the nation.

The synergies of research between the Innovation Campus and the entrepreneurial and industrial presence of the KBA within the Kansas Bioscience Park will foster collaborations. These partnerships can lead to rapid development and deployment of technologies from the lab to the marketplace. Underlying all these areas of technology discovery and commercialization are bioscience education and workforce development.

The Innovation Campus is one leg of the Johnson County Education and Research Triangle, an initiative that partners KSU with the University of Kansas' Edwards Campus in Overland Park and its Cancer Center program in Fairway. The "Triangle" concept is built on collaboration between the public and private sectors and is projected to have a significant economic impact within the next 5 to 10 years from dollars invested, jobs created, and commercialized bioscience technologies.

Construction of a National Institute for Food Safety and Security will begin on the KSU Olathe campus in 2009. This building will include approximately 103,000 square feet of educational space.

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