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TechColumbus Invests $1.6M in Nine Local Tech Companies
TechColumbus has announced results of its latest round of funding. Nine companies in Central Ohio will receive funding through two programs – the TechGenesis Grant Program and the TechColumbus Regional Commercialization Fund. The investments, totaling $1.6 million, are financed by the Ohio Third Frontier Program and 17 local investors including the City of Columbus, Franklin County, the cities of Dublin, New Albany and Upper Arlington, The Columbus Chamber, OhioHealth, Nationwide, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Ohio TechAngels. [Read More]
Ohio’s K-12 School System Ranks First in Midwest – Sixth in the Nation
Education Weekly Magazine recently published its annual report card ranking of the 50 states. The report, called Quality Counts 2009, has ranked Ohio #1 among Midwestern states and 6th nationally on 35 indicators used to judge the quality of school systems, grades K-12. The report is an independent assessment that ranks how each state educates its children. [Read More]
Bioscience Having Major Impact on Central Ohio
With over half the companies receiving awards from TechColumbus’ latest round of funding being medical technology oriented, it’s clear that bioscience is having a tremendous impact on the region. Medical devices are under development within the region to serve a number of clinical and diagnostic purposes ranging from preventing strokes to rapidly prototyping new gene therapies. [Read More]
Recent Legislative Acts Recognize Importance of Science, Technology, Innovation and Health IT in Nation’s Economic Resurgence
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was published this week by the House Appropriations Budget Committee. The act reaffirms the critical role that innovation must play in the recovery of our nation’s economic and world standing. The act is part of the federal stimulus package and it includes several key investments in the nation’s “innovation infrastructure,” including funding for broadband and wireless services, health IT, technology improvements for an efficient and secure government, education technology and scientific research.&nb [Read More]
NanoDynamics Receives SBIR Grant for Development of Nanomaterials for U.S. Army
NanoDynamics, Inc., a Buffalo-based company with offices located in the TechColumbus center, has received a two-year Phase II SBIR grant in the amount of $773,000 to continue development of highly conductive, high aspect ratio nano-scale materials to be used by the Army in infrared obscurants. Infrared obscurants are used as advanced technology smoke screens, the purpose of which is to prevent detection by forward looking infrared (FLIR) imaging technology on the battlefield. The nanomaterials are also anticipated to have commercial viability in electronic applications suc [Read More]
IT Departments Rely on Independent Testing Labs for Specialized Resources & Expertise
CIOUpdate.com has published a recent story about the value of outsourcing IT testing to independent test labs. The two biggest reasons CIOs turn to outsourced labs: expertise and resources. “There are specialized skills, test plans, environment preparation, environment validation and a slew of other components necessary to do world-class testing that are not usually found in abundance in corporate IT departments,” said Greg Shipley, CTO of Neohapsis, who was quoted in the article. [Read More]
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