Bizarrely, I got back from St. Louis last on Saturday after going for PhD interviews. Regarding St. Louis as a whole, I think this article has some interesting

Bizarrely, I got back from St. Louis last on Saturday after going for PhD interviews. Regarding St. Louis as a whole, I think this article has some interesting points; http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketshare/2011/12/06/st-louis-doesnt-suck/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketshare/2011/12/06/st-louis-... As for St. Louis as a tech start up location, I know there's a growing biotech scene bubbling up. St. Louis actually has the highest concentration of plant scientists in the world, and both Monsanto and WashU really pioneering some pretty incredible crop research. Similarly, WashU is doing some truly extraordinary biomedical research, such as the newly opened Genomic and Pathology Services, where physicians from around the US can send cancer tissue samples to have genomic data read for prognostic and diagnostic purposes (http://www.gps.wustl.edu/ http://www.gps.wustl.edu/). To help catalyze the biotech spirit, the university offers a biotech Entrepreneurship pathway integrated with its biomedical/biological sciences PhD program which runs joint with the business school.(http://dbbs.wustl.edu/curstudents/SpecialEmphasisPathways/Pages/KauffmanPathway.aspx http://dbbs.wustl.edu/curstudents/SpecialEmphasisPathways/Pa...). All that said and done, I can't imagine moving a tech start-up to STL. It seems like a company might organically grow out of existing work...