MINNEAPOLIS—JLL recently issued its 2015 Global Life Sciences Cluster Report and for the US, among the top 10 rated regions was Minneapolis-St. Paul, the only metro area from the Midwest to score so high. A total of 44,016 people in the metro area work in the life sciences industry, JLL found, or about 3.0% of the total workforce.

“We have a very robust talent pool,” Brian K. Ginkel, managing director at JLL in Minneapolis, tells GlobeSt.com, “much of it due to the presence of St. Jude Medical, and Medtronic Inc.,” two global medical device manufacturers with primary operations here that “really drive the start-up community.”

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