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TBED Organizations & People Update

Monday, March 28, 2005

Organizations The influential 5,600-member American Association for Higher Education announced last Thursday that it would close by the end of the year due to financial difficulties stemming in part from a sharp decline in membership.

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TBED Organizations & People Update

Monday, March 28, 2005

Two Southern Arizona tech councils, theInformation Technology Association of Southern Arizona and the Southern Arizona Industry and Aerospace Alliance, decided to merge to have the combined financial resources for a full-time executive director, according to the March 23 edition of the Tucson Citizen.

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TBED Organizations & People Update

Monday, March 28, 2005

To reduce administrative costs by up to $500,000 and to improve operational efficiencies, the Slater Fund Board of Directors has approved plans to consolidate Rhode Island's four Slater Centers into a single entity, the Slater Technology Fund, Inc. The fund will retain its four technology thrusts of biomedical technology, interactive technologies, design and manufacturing, and marine and environmental technologies.

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TBED Organizations & People Update

Monday, March 28, 2005

The Iowa Entrepreneurs Coalition has been formed to help advance an innovation- and entrepreneur-friendly agenda in the Iowa legislature.

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TBED Organizations & People Update

Monday, March 28, 2005

The Georgia Department of Economic Development announced William Boone is the first director for the new Agricultural Center of Innovation.

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TBED Organizations & People Update

Monday, March 28, 2005

Dyan Brasington, former president of the Technology Council of Maryland, is the new director of economic and workforce development at Towson University.

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TBED Organizations & People Update

Monday, March 28, 2005

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney promoted Renee Fry to serve as director of the Department of Business and Technology, the state agency tasked with retaining and attracting jobs and steering economic policy throughout the Commonwealth.

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TBED Organizations & People Update

Monday, March 28, 2005

Sylvia Goldman has resigned as director of the Louisiana Department of Economic Development, effective at the end of March.

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TBED Organizations & People Update

Monday, March 28, 2005

Wade Lange, president and CEO of the Indiana Health Industry Forum, announced he will be leaving the organization this summer to return to the private sector.

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TBED Organizations & People Update

Monday, March 28, 2005

Greater Baltimore Technology Council executive director Penny Lewandowski is leaving at the end of May to join the Edward Lowe Foundation in Detroit. Assistant director Steve Kovak has been named her successor.

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TBED Organizations & People Update

Monday, March 28, 2005

Jerry Lonergan, president of Kansas, Inc., is resigning effective April 1. A bill to dissolve the state's policy and planning organization passed the Kansas Senate last week.

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TBED Organizations & People Update

Monday, March 28, 2005

Robert Rosner, chief scientist for the Argonne National Laboratory, will be the lab's new director.

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TBED Organizations & People Update

Monday, March 28, 2005

Craig Watters is serving as interim director of the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University. Past director Nola Miyasaki has relocated to Hawaii to join a biotech company.

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Congressional Actions Challenge Economic Development Revamp

Monday, March 21, 2005

The fate of the Advanced Technology Program and the Administration's entire reorganization of federal economic development efforts also took hits, as parts of a series of Congressional votes on the budget. However, these votes are only the first step in a along budget process.

Senate Saves CDBG with Coleman Amendment

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ATP Strikes Out in House, Gets On Base with Senate

Monday, March 21, 2005

With Opening Day less than two weeks away, a baseball analogy is only fitting to suggest NIST's Advanced Technology Program (ATP) is in for a long season. Since 1990, ATP has provided early-stage funding for 768 projects to accelerate the development of innovative technologies that promise significant commercial payoffs and widespread benefits.

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Massachusetts Launches Tech Commercialization Awards

Monday, March 21, 2005

Sometimes a little money is all that may be required to discover that an innovation in the lab is worth millions in the marketplace. At least that's the goal of a small grant program launched this afternoon by the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC). The MTTC Tech Commercialization Awards will provide $5,000 mini-grants for technology assessments and investigations by academic and industrial researchers within the Commonwealth.

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Wisconsin University System Joins Consortium to Compete for Defense R&D Funds

Monday, March 21, 2005

As trends in federal funding priorities shift from domestic R&D to defense-related R&D, universities are scrambling to get their piece of the pie. The president's fiscal year 2006 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) includes increased funding of 6.6 percent over the fiscal year 2005 appropriation (see the Feb. 14 issue of the Digest).

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North Carolina Unveils Plans for Defense Related Business Incubator

Monday, March 21, 2005

The rapid increase in federal spending for defense and homeland security has led a number of states to establish initiatives targeting potential economic development from these activities. North Carolina becomes the latest of those states, with its proposed Defense Technology Innovation Center.

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Broadband 'Master Plan' Unveiled for Rural New Hampshire

Monday, March 21, 2005

Broadband access is considered by most to be a key ingredient for encouraging innovation and building a local tech-based economy. Access for many rural areas, however, remains geographically or financially out of reach. Earlier this month, the New Hampshire Rural Development Council (NHRDC) unveiled a plan to change that for the businesses, government and individuals in the northern portion of the Granite State.

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Useful Stats: 2002 Federal S&E Obligations with Universities, by State

Monday, March 21, 2005

The National Science Foundation has released its report on Federal Science and Engineering (S&E) Support to Universities, Colleges and Nonprofit Institutions for Fiscal Year 2002, revealing the government distributed nearly $24.4 billion to the nation's research institutions during the year. The figure is 8.5 percent higher higher than the FY 2001 total of $22.5 billion.

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Wyoming Creates Staggering $500M Higher Ed Endowment Fund

Monday, March 14, 2005

The scenario: You are a state legislator and have learned high oil and gas prices will provide the state coffers with at least enough surplus revenue over the next five years to have approximately $1,000 per resident. What do you do with the money?

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Montana Gov. Wants More Than $20M Endowment for Economic Development

Monday, March 14, 2005

With a state legislature that only meets for 90 days every two years, opportunity for positive change in Montana's public-supported efforts to build a tech-based economy is limited. For the proposed $20 million Big Sky Economic Development Trust Fund - one of new Gov. Brian Schweitzer's largest economic development initiatives - the 90th day, April 26, is fast approaching.

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Arkansas House Passes Bill to Allocate 12-Year Funding Base for R&D, Seed Capital

Monday, March 14, 2005

The perennial or biennial efforts to secure funding from state legislatures to support tech-based economic development (TBED) programs can create significant limitations on the design and execution of programs targeting research or early-stage, seed capital investments. Fixed endowments such as the one created by Wyoming and the Permanent Big Sky Economic Development Fund proposed in Montana (see both stories above) are ideal, but getting the initial payment approved by a legislature can be difficult.

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Minnesota Establishes New State SBIR/STTR Office

Monday, March 14, 2005

For 20 years, small tech firms and researchers in Minnesota called on Minnesota Project Innovation (MPI) for assistance in developing competitive proposals for the federal Small Business Innovation Research or Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) programs. On Feb. 28, the MPI Board of Directors voted to officially transfer program operations to the state Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED).

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Florida County R&D Authority Awards Tech Commercialization Grants

Monday, March 14, 2005

Many communities around the country have established authorities to oversee the real estate, infrastructure and management issues of their technology parks. Few of those authorities, however, provide direct grants to support industry-university R&D or commercialization projects. This more proactive approach to growing future tenants is the thinking behind a pilot program created last year for the Leon County Research and Development Authority (LCRDA) in Tallahassee.

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