Q&A: The future of Minnesota's med tech industry

Shaye Mandle took over this month as the new CEO of LifeScience Alley, a trade association that represents the state's medical technology and life sciences companies.

Those companies -- from small start ups to big names like Medtronic and 3M -- are a prominent part of the state economy and employ more than a quarter million Minnesotans.

Click the audio player above to hear Mandle's conversation with MPR News' All Things Considered.