Making the global innovation connection
By GREGORY ZELLER /// It’s a big world out there, and a true innovation economy must capitalize on it. Selling widgets around town can get a startup off the ground,…
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Meet the Luminati Aerospace R&D team
Luminati Aerospace shed light on its top management this week, trotting out the startup’s top design and science officers before the Riverhead town board and local residents. The firm, which…
Guv unveils airport funding competition
By GREGORY ZELLER // Gov. Andrew Cuomo has unleashed his favorite funding scheme – the “competitive process” – on New York State’s airports. The governor’s office announced this week that…
IOY 2015: Celebrating invention and innovation
More than 250 winners and well-wishers turned out for our inaugural Innovator of the Year Awards, which celebrated Long Island’s best and brightest ideas and mentorship in software, biotech, clean energy,…
Frosae hopes you get deep into their cups
By GREGORY ZELLER // Frosae Wine Sorbae might be one distribution deal away from inching into the black, but that doesn’t mean the people who make it aren’t already having…
Teq lands Labdisc distribution deal
Teq, the Huntington-based ed-tech juggernaut, has been named exclusive K-12 distributor in New York and New Jersey of Labdisc, a hand-sized “data logger” produced by Georgia’s Boxlight Corp. Packed with…
The Debrief: James Hayward, Applied DNA Sciences
A new collaboration with a California-based training organization, which puts Applied DNA’s proprietary genetic marking technology in front of thousands of U.S. police departments and private security firms, continues a…
Applause for Steven Patrikis’ 3-D Tetra-Hand
By GREGORY ZELLER // NYIT junior Steven Patrikis, on course for a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering next fall, already knows what he wants to do professionally, even if he’s…
LI composites center, national consortium in deal
The nation’s largest composites consortium has signed a collaborative agreement with Plainview’s Composite Prototyping Center on Thursday in a deal that could be worth $250 million in contracts and grants. The…
SBU team lands $1M for clean engine ignition
A Stony Brook University-led research team has received a $1 million Department of Energy grant to advance research on what’s called Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition, an emerging combustion technology that uses…
State revamps rules for craft beverage industry
The State Liquor Authority has approved a host of improved rules aimed at helping craft beverage manufacturers, retailers and wholesalers. The changes come in the wake of the third annual Beer, Wine, Spirits…
ThermoLift inks GTI collaboration deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook-based startup ThermoLift has a powerful new ally as it prepares second-phase testing of its revolutionary heating/cooling pump for the rigors of proof-of-concept testing. In…
A world of opportunity at annual CEWIT conference
The information-technology world is coming to Melville. Billing itself as “New York’s premier IT conference and international forum on emerging technologies for a smarter world,” the Center of Excellence in…
Beta installations for first SynchroPET scanners
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook startup SynchroPET has taken a giant step toward commercializing its groundbreaking scanners, which offer unprecedented 3-D views of the body’s biological systems using technology…
NYIT’s Farajivadar lands NIH neural research grant
NYIT professor and neural-stimulation expert Aydin Farajivadar has won a federal grant to help fund development of a wireless, implantable system to study the human body’s gastric system. Early-stage work…