Sources say top business and political leaders in Wisconsin, including top Assembly Democrat Peter Barca, are lobbying hard for Miromatrix, which spun out of the University of Minnesota late last year, to establish its headquarters in the Badger State.

For the past two years, the Minnesota House committee that oversees bioscience development held a special hearing on why Minnesota needs an angel investor tax credit to boost high tech companies. And for the past two years, nothing happened.