No. 1,000: The more things change…
Welcome, intrepid innovators, to Wednesday and a landmark edition of your favorite innovation newsletter, and to a momentous day in Innovate Long Island history. It’s mindboggling that more than…
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A summer of energetic schooling with SBU (and friends)
By GREGORY ZELLER // Power players from across regional industry and academia have joined forces this summer to give disadvantaged students – and Long Island socioeconomics – an energetic boost….
The Debrief: New faces, historical mission at the MTRC
Change is afoot at Stony Brook University’s Manufacturing and Technology Resource Consortium. Not the MTRC’s mission; Empire State Development’s regional Manufacturing Extension Partnership center has always provided job-creation and…
Night of a thousand ideas at first-ever BrandSlam
BrandSlam is in the books! Our free “marketing improv” event, held Oct. 6 at LaunchPad Huntington, was exactly what we’d hoped: fun, instructive, another worthy addition to Innovate Long…
At AEC 2022, high stakes for new energy-storage tech
By GREGORY ZELLER // Albany has awarded $16.6 million to five “long-duration energy-storage projects” – with another $17 million teed up for projects that can harness and store renewable energy….
AEC 2022 gets the clean-energy band back together
By GREGORY ZELLER // And now back to our regularly scheduled low-carbon economy, already in progress. Four years since last gathering in person – and 14 months since a post-pandemic…
No. 699: In which we vulcanize rubber, rock lobsters and show some spectacular spider sense
Full throttle: Holy guacamole, dear readers – this late-spring workweek and the entire month of June are already half over! That makes it Wednesday, June 15, and we’re pouring…
For real market value, nothing beats life on the farm
By DAVID HAMILTON // Spring has fully sprung and summer is near – and that means sunny mornings, high pollen counts … and farmer’s markets! Farmer’s markets have become a…
No. 687: The OJ is fresh, the trees are planted and the Force will be with you, always (hold the chicken)
Force push: Welcome to Wednesday, masters and padawans, Jedi and Sith, bounty hunters, Imperial troops and assorted rebel scum. It’s May 4 across our little corner of the universe,…
Gluten-free galley is icing atop ace food-biz incubator
By DAVID HAMILTON // There’s a real gem hidden inside the Food Business Incubator at Calverton, like finally getting in enough licks on your Tootsie Pop to discover the delicious…
No. 675: On Dixie Cups, royalty and tiny furballs – with hot tamales and a literal Eurasian crossover
Middle wait: Welcome to Wednesday, pioneering pugilists, as we stick and move our way through another busy bout of socioeconomic innovation – and, as usual, punch way above our…
A sweet new gig for this grizzled clean-gen guru
By DAVID HAMILTON // So, a food incubator … a what now? I’ve run Stony Brook University’s Clean Energy Business Incubator Program for the past decade, and its Advanced Energy…
At CEBIP, a familiar face with another bright idea
By GREGORY ZELLER // Turns out, you can go home again – at least, if you’re an energy-efficiency pioneer with cutting-edge technology, major-league partners and world-class ambitions. Such is the…
New top chef brings real energy to Calverton Incubator
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University’s most energetic commercialization expert (literally) has taken the reins of the university’s tastiest business incubator (also literally). David Hamilton, known best for shepherding…
Amazonian attention bodes well for Amogy, CEBIP
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new Clean Energy Business Incubator Program client is already attracting major league attention – including a significant buy-in by Amazon. Brooklyn-based Amogy Inc., a developer…