The Dimension Mill has rebranded as Amplify Bloomington. It launched with support from Indiana University, Cook Group, the city of Bloomington, and a coalition of corporate partners. Former Bloomington Mayor and SSTI Board member John Fernandez leads the organization.
The Georgia Research Alliance recently published Impact ’25, its 2025 impact report. Top-line impacts include more than $1 billion in outside public-private funding awarded to GRA Scholars, $1 out of every $4 received for research at a GA university went to a GRA Scholar, 3,428 new workforce opportunities created, $350 million in revenue and outside funding to GRA-backed startups, and ranking eighth in U.S. university R&D (up from twelfth in 2021).
Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN), a public-private partnership with the state that supports business development and innovation, recently launched the Tennessee Innovation Exchange, known as TNIX. The centralized digital platform serves as a repository for businesses, industry, and academia to find the research of participating universities and the expertise of their academics and researchers.
The Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development (DCED) announced the commonwealth has secured a $3.5 billion private-sector investment from global pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly and Company to build a drug manufacturing facility in Lehigh County. Lilly’s investment is the largest by a life sciences company in commonwealth history, and the fourth large facility announced over the past year. Supported by $100 million in commonwealth investment, including a $5 million grant to a local community college for a workforce development training program that would serve as a talent pipeline to Eli Lilly, this expansion project will create at least 850 new jobs over the next five years.