Sunday, April 01, 2012
This past Nov. 29 at 2:14 p.m., an executive from MindTree Limited made first contact in Gainesville by emailing the computer science chairman at the University of Florida College of Engineering.
That started a months-long process, codenamed Project Arbor, that culminated in Tuesday's announcement that the India-based software development firm had selected Gainesville for its first U.S. development center, bringing at least 400 jobs over the next five years with an average salary of $80,000. ..
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Florida’s legislative leaders have asked the state’s public colleges and universities to be the economic engine driving the Sunshine State toward a brighter and more prosperous future, and a new economic impact study released by the Board of Governors (BOG) indicates they are succeeding. ..
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
A recently updated study of the University of Central Florida’s Business Incubation Program demonstrates the program’s impact on the regional economy, showing a total economic output from client and graduate companies that exceeds $360 million annually. ..
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Since 2006, the bacterial disease citrus greening has cost Florida’s economy an estimated $3.63 billion in lost revenues and 6,611 jobs by reducing orange juice production, according to a new study from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. ..
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Saturday, January 07, 2012
The heart of the growing Lake Nona development, Medical City is shaping up to be just what its visionaries hoped: one of the nation's leading bioscience clusters.
This year, as three major medical institutions open, the complex will take a giant step in that direction. The University of Florida Research and Academic Center will open in summer, followed by the Orlando Veteran's Affairs Medical Center and Nemours Children's Hospital in the fall. ..
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Tom O'Neal oversees GrowFL, which aids "second-stage" businesses. Since 2009, the program has helped create more than 1,400 jobs at 300-plus companies. ..
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Friday, December 09, 2011
Building on a break-out inaugural year, the 2012 Florida Companies to Watch awards program returns to give second-stage businesses throughout Florida another opportunity to join a group of nationally recognized Companies to Watch honorees. This program celebrates growing second-stage companies headquartered in Florida and is presented by the Florida Economic Gardening Institute at the University of Central Florida, in association with the Edward Lowe Foundation. ..
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Thursday, December 08, 2011
Today at the White House, the Startup America Partnership convened its all-entrepreneur board and announced $475 million in new committed resources to help startups scale, pushing the total value of its partner offerings to over $1.2 billion. The latest round of partner commitments are a direct response to specific requests made by the nearly 2000 Startup America Firms that have already registered with the Partnership since the release of its platform in September. ..
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Susan Hockfield, President of MIT, spoke to a sold out crowd at the November 9, 2011 Commonwealth Club meeting in Santa Clara, CA. The topic discussed is very dear to this author: “Revving Up America’s Innovation Engine.”Ms. Hockfield is a noted neuroscientist whose research has focused on the development of the brain. She is the first life scientist to lead MIT and holds a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience in the institute’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. ..
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Friday, November 18, 2011
Ever since the University of Miami created The Launch Pad, the program’s distinctive approach to entrepreneurship education has served as a model for and benefited students at other institutions around the nation. ..
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