Mayor Menino thinks so. Note that Boston used incentives to lure Vertex from Cambridge to Boston. And, he’ll make a pitch at the Bio meeting today. The Globe reports:

Boston officials are seizing on the city’s status as a magnet for federal research funding in a new campaign to brand the emerging Seaport business district as an innovation center and persuade out-of-state and foreign life sciences companies to set up shop there.

At the Biotechnology Industry Organization convention in Washington, D.C., today, Mayor Thomas M. Menino is scheduled to release a Boston Redevelopment Authority report showing that Boston drew more National Institutes of Health grant dollars in 2010 than any other US city for the 16th straight year.