Calm between the storms: Well done, intrepid innovators! You survived Long island’s heaviest snowstorm in years – and yeah, there’s another titanic winter storm brewing for this coming weekend,…
By TOM MARINER // Of course you know the multinational powerhouse, but that’s not how The Estée Lauder Companies began. Queens-born Estée Lauder and her husband, Joseph, launched the small…
Working on it: Welcome to the first Wednesday of November, dear readers, and the midpoint of the penultimate month’s first workweek. Election Day is behind us, Veteran’s Day is…
By TOM MARINER // The Center for Biotechnology at Stony Brook University has long been one of New York State’s most powerful engines for life-sciences innovation. And it’s not letting…
By TOM MARINER // Long Island has long been home to pioneering technology firms, but few illustrate the region’s role in global innovation as clearly as Symbol Technologies. Symbol evolved…
No place like dome: Welcome to another warm Wednesday, dear readers, as the “heat dome” holds over Long Island and much of the nation – though relief from this…
By TOM MARINER // When the first U.S. Army recruits marched across the pine barrens of Upton, Long Island, in 1917, few could have imagined the global scientific breakthroughs that…
By TOM MARINER // It was as if I was transported to the Haas pit at the Formula One race in Monaco. Crews in logoed shirts, fervently tuning their complex…
By TOM MARINER // As I prepare to board a Long Island Rail Road train at Ronkonkoma Station for a quick journey into the city and another hot-button pharmaceutical conference,…
Third day’s the charm: It’s Friday out there, intrepid innovators, and you’ve reached the doorstep of another well-earned winter weekend – for about a quarter of you working in…
By TOM MARINER // The U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates 2 million medical devices and a $1.6 trillion pharmaceuticals industry, all with a nod to a longtime Long Island…
By TOM MARINER // “Metco has been here for 91 years?” This was my surprised retort to Ed Sottile and Nicole Hernandez of Oerlikon Metco, when I found them talking…
Stay in your lane: Welcome to Wednesday, racing readers, as we hurdle September’s fourth and final hump and sprint toward the Friday finish line. Your favorite innovation newsletter is…
By TOM MARINER // Farmingdale’s Enzo Biochem has been a prescient predictor of biotechnology advances for nearly five decades – forever innovating, protecting and delivering the “right” bio products at…
By TOM MARINER // One of Long Island’s most powerful business organizations was originally sparked by a power outage. The HIA-LI launched after a 1978 blackout, which left many of…