12/26/2012 9:02:00 AM
Times Union: State is well-poised for nanotech challenges
Times Union
It is universally accepted that science, technology, engineering and
math are essential in successfully competing for jobs, as the global
economy is increasingly driven by high-tech innovation.
Exhibit A
is nanotechnology. It is projected that 6 million people will be
employed in the nanotechnology industry by 2020, including over 2
million in the U.S. alone.
It is important to recognize New York
as a global hub for nanotechnology — so much so that the refrain among
industry is increasingly, "Why Anywhere but New York?"
Under the
auspices of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's innovation-driven economic blueprint,
wherein New York-led and managed industry-university partnerships are
used to catalyze opportunity and growth, New York is building the
modern-day equivalent of the Erie Canal: a vibrant high-tech economy
fueled by a new economic paradigm in which publicly run consortia
replace the defunct U.S. model of "if an idea is worth commercializing,
industry will find a way to fund it."
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