Gov. Lincoln Chafee and a delegation from Rhode Island traveled to Texas this week to learn the secret to the city’s success in bringing jobs to Houston.
NBC 10's political reporter Bill Rappleye was the only local reporter who went along on the trip.
Chafee is hoping to be able to follow Texas's model, in creating new jobs, particularly in bio-medical business and research.
The presidents of the University of Rhode Island and Brown University were part of the delegation. URI President David Dooley and Brown University President Ruth Simmons pledged to work together to expand Rhode Island's Knowledge District.
We want to develop and grow the relationship between the new school at Brown and the hospitals says Chafee.
The governor told NBC 10 that the Knowledge District needs to be looking at the health care and research areas. That’s the fast-growing industry says Chafee. And that’s where the growth is, and that’s where the good paying jobs will be.
The Texas Medical Center complex in Houston has a budget twice the size of the budget of the entire state of Rhode Island.
Chafee says a similar project here would be on a smaller scale, but they hope to put some of the same principles to work to develop it.
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