State’s $160M renewables program sidesteps LI
BY GREGORY ZELLER New York State’s new $160 million clean-energy initiative is an environmental and economic-development boon of the highest order. But not for Long Island. In fact, the funding…
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Maker’s markt set for LaunchPad Huntington
BY GREGORY ZELLER LaunchPad Huntington has landed a $15,000 grant from Albany’s Workforce Development Institute to build out a 3D maker space prototyping facility. The grant covers the cost of…
DEBRIEF: Andrew Hazen, Angel Dough Ventures
Most known recently as a founder of the fast-growing Launchpad Long Island co-working facilities, serial investor Andrew Hazen is not afraid to take a chance. But whether the CEO of…
CharityWait lands Angel Network funding
BY GREGORY ZELLER // From the Two Birds/One Stone file comes CharityWait, a born-in-Nassau-County app that’s received a hefty six-figure investment from Angel Dough Ventures and the Long Island Angel Network….
$533M in film activity for Nassau
A report commissioned by the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency suggests the county has received a $533 million boost from film and television production work since 2013. The report is…
SlipFinder: The nautical Airbnb
BY GREGORY ZELLER Keith Cooper’s goal is not immodest: He’s looking to forever change the recreational boating world as we know it. The way the Long Island native and his…
SBU, Brookhaven Lab scientists charging towards the future
BY GREGORY ZELLER Good news for the future of Long Island’s innovation economy: Batteries are included. Supercharged by a $10 million research grant and wielding next-level tools that provide unprecedented…
North Shore-LIJ, CSHL in cancer partnership
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and North Shore-LIJ announced a joint cancer research and treatment effort that is designed to speed the region’s most-promising research to patients. The affiliation will better…
Army exercises Comtech contract extension
The U.S. Army re-upped for another year of services from Melville’s Comtech Telecommunications Corp., exercising almost $20 million in contracts covering engineering and satellite communications and use of hush-hush Comtech…
In Long Beach, the art of medicine
BY GREGORY ZELLER Expect the “hospital without beds” coming soon to the site of the former Long Beach Medical Center to be a bastion of Long Island-based technology. While South…
SBU, Cold Spring and BNL win hub grant
A $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help Long Island’s three premier biotech R&D facilities speed medical breakthroughs to market. The NIH announced April 8 that…
DEBRIEF: Lee Cheatham, BNL’s prince of partnering
Go east, young man: While the bulk of his education and the entirety of his professional career have occurred in western locales, Lee Cheatham’s path has led him finally to…
Accelerate releases startups report
Accelerate Long Island released its much-anticipated technology startups report this week, taking the first comprehensive look at the region’s emerging innovation economy. Regional economic development officials have long supported technology…
Lights back on, finally, at Bioscience Park
Biotech firm Codagenix, a fixture at Stony Brook’s technology incubator for the past three years, is moving to the Broad Hollow Bioscience Park at SUNY Farmingdale to qualify for the…
Fuel bill clears Assembly committee
An Assembly bill voted out of committee last week would require all heating oil sold in New York State contain at least 2 percent biodiesel — that’s fuel derived from renewable…