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Wheeling, dealing toward LI’s energy future

By GREGORY ZELLER // A Selden-based supply-chain specialist and Eastern Suffolk BOCES are plowing innovative pathways toward good jobs in burgeoning alternative-energy fields. Dynamic Supplier Alignment is teaming with the…


CEBIP sees a possible future in NYSERDA fund

By GREGORY ZELLER // A fresh $10 million investment will support early-stage clean-energy companies plugged into New York’s disparate business-incubator ecosystem – and one Long Island business program is especially…



IPS-designed smart safe enters the war on drugs

By GREGORY ZELLER // Perpetual monitoring of your prescription medications is now an app away. A Westchester distributor has taken to Indiegogo with humanity’s “first Internet of Things-integrated personal safe,”…


DOE taps SBU guru, for a billion-billion reasons

By GREGORY ZELLER // An ambitious nationwide computational-chemistry effort – which could enhance critical biomass-based energy production, among other next-level sciences – will be led by one of Stony Brook…


SBU marks a Duchenne muscular dystrophy first

A grassroots foundation has helped Stony Brook Children’s Hospital open Greater New York’s first center dedicated to Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Duchenne syndrome, or Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is a common and…


The little vending machine that could

By GREGORY ZELLER // A “Shark Tank” success story that’s rewriting point-of-purchase logistics is coming home to Long Island. Brainstormed and birthed in Bethpage, Vengo – a wall-hugging dispenser packed…


Struggling Melville maker eyes electronics

Park Electrochemical Corp.’s fiscal 2017 slump continued in the company’s second quarter, according to an earnings report issued this month. Reporting Oct. 5 on its FY2017 second quarter, which ended…


Up, down, up at ‘transformative’ Comtech

Lower income but dramatically higher sales – both attributed to a key February acquisition – set a mixed fourth-quarter tone at Comtech Telecommunications Corp. The Melville-based maker of high-tech communications…


Forum: MWBEs soaring across New York State

More minority- and women-owned businesses have deals with New York State than ever before, state officials announced Thursday. The utilization rate for certified Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises participating in…


Yes, you can get good bagels in Canada (now)

A Bohemia bagel shop is going to Canada. Through a new partnership between Amtrak and Albany’s Taste NY promotional campaign, travelers to destinations across the Empire State and as far…


AERTC firm nabs superconductivity stipend

By GREGORY ZELLER // A Department of Energy grant will help a Stony Brook-based advanced-energy firm develop high-temperature superconductor technology that could alter the future of global power grids. The…



Cuomo: Last stop for IDA transit-tax breaks

By GREGORY ZELLER // Legislation prohibiting local industrial-development agencies from abating taxes used to fund transit authorities has been signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Economic-development engines like the…