AURP - News
Report: To create jobs, streamline tech transfer, entrepreneurship policy
COLLEGE PARK, Md. The federal government can stimulate the creation of jobs and businesses by streamlining its policies for bringing new technologies to market, says a report from the Association of University Research Parks (AURP). The report offers a 10-point plan, including targeted federal investments, and would be especially beneficial for high-tech states like Maryland, according to its author. ...
Genetic Engineering News - 2010-02-25 17:45:56
ICAR keeps generating good jobs
A flurry of announcements about new tenants and events at Clemson's International Center for Automotive Research is more proof that the research park is beginning to live up to its expectations. So far this year, ICAR has announced the landing of Proterra Inc., an electric bus manufacturer, and the corporate headquarters of Sage Automotive Interiors. It'll also play host to a collegiate Baja car-building ...
Greenville News - 2010-02-28 04:04:32
Decades on, UW-Madison Research Park thrives, plans for growth
MADISON - In the beginning, there was doubt. Scroll back to the early 1980s, a time when the economy, like today, was in free fall. Unemployment soared, the energy crisis of the late 1970s lingered, and the industries America had always depended on underwent permanent transformation. In that wobbly fiscal climate in small town Madison, Wis., an idea that had been kicked around since the early 1960s ...
Wisconsin Technology Network - 2010-02-24 11:47:21
Company Could Cure Cancer
A Purdue professors company has developed a procedure that could allow doctors to treat cancer far more effectively. Endocyte, a company founded in 1996 that focuses its research on cancer treatment, is located in Purdue Research Park. The company is the spawn of basic research that was being conducted by Philip Low, a Purdue biochemist and current chief science officer of Endocyte, at Purdue in ...
Purdue Exponent - 2010-03-08 09:35:01
UA Tech Park breaks ground on K-8 school
A problem that became a solution ' that's how Superintendent Calvin Baker describes Vail High School's launch 13 years ago when the University of Arizona agreed to host the charter school's campus at the University of Arizona's Science and Technology Park on Tucson's southeast side. The experiment was so successful that Vail Academy, a K-8 addition of 225 students, will open in the fall. The Vail ...
Inside Tuscon Business - 2010-02-27 11:31:15
Higher Education Policy Commission Votes on Tech Park Property
Story by Sarah Lieu | | CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission is now a step closer to developing a research park in South Charleston. Thursday afternoon, the commission voted to accept the donation agreement to take control of the Dow Chemical Technology Park in South Charleston. The group also talked about some of its future plans for the park. Two lab buildings on ...
WOWK - 2010-03-05 09:56:05
Construction advances at NMSU's 247-acre industrial park
s Arrowhead Research Park is shaping up as a budding industrial hub. General Dynamics, a Virginia-based communications technology company, moved in July into a new 15,500-square-foot building the first facility built at the park in nearly a decade. Developers will start work this month on another 8,800-square-foot building to house five more companies. They will break ground this summer on a 500-student ...
New Mexico Business Weekly - 2010-03-08 09:35:25
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