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Lyne Bouchard is the president and CEO of TechnoMontréal, a new umbrella organization for the city's information and communications technology cluster.
Lyne Bouchard is the president and CEO of TechnoMontréal, a new umbrella organization for the city's information and communications technology cluster.
Rich Cook has joined the West Michigan Science and Technology Initiative as venture center director.
Jeffrey Corcoran has been named director of the new SUNY Fredonia High Technology Incubator in Dunkirk, N.Y.
Anna Ehnmark was appointed executive director of the Technology Alliance Group for Northwest Washington.
John Gee was named president and CEO of the Information Technology Association of Wisconsin.
Donna Kent resigned as president and CEO of the Arizona Technology Council to accept a position with Televerde, a marketing service solutions provider based in Tempe.
Lisa Kuuttila is the first CEO of Michigan State University Technologies, a business organization to train MSU students in the commercialization of science and technology.
Enterprise Florida selected Louis Laubscher to replace Howard Haug as its new senior vice president and COO.
Connecticut Innovations has named John Mengacci interim president while it conducts a broad search to fill the position permanently.
Richard Nelson has been appointed chairman and CEO of the Council of Regional Information Technology Associations.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer has named Avi Schick and David Emil, respectively, as chairman and president of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Gov. Chet Culver has appointed Mike Tramontina as director of the Iowa Department of Economic Development.
John Wasilisin was named deputy executive director of the Maryland Technology Development Corporation.
Steve Zylstra stepped down as CEO of the Pittsburgh Technology Council.
Doug Johnson of UniverCity Connections believes a bill providing tax credits to angel investors putting their money into start-up companies will create hundreds of new jobs in Colorado and help stimulate the lagging state economy.
Superclusters can be explosive.
Colorado State University this week announced that its researchers have more than doubled the number of inventions, a phenomenal effort in two years. University officials attribute the success to the supercluster concept, which unites researchers with those in the private sector who can take their ideas and run, such as business experts, patent attorneys, marketers, etc. While the superclusters don't create new research, they foster it by speeding the transfer of technology from research to implementation.
Since the SSTI Funding Supplement became a members-only publication in 2006 more than 4,250 funding opportunities have been distributed. In 2008 only, there were more than 1,400 different opportunities for your client companies and university research faculties to secure funding -- if you were an SSTI member. Competition for federal research funding is growing, particularly as program budgets have been relatively flat or declining in recent federal budget cycles.
Complete descriptions of these opportunities and others are available at http://www.ssti.org/posting.htm.
Eric Cromwell announced he is resigning as director of technology development for the State of Tennessee.
Frank Dinucci announced he will step down in April 2007 as president of Connecticut Innovations.
Eric Cromwell announced he is resigning as director of technology development for the State of Tennessee.