Prototyping and production, right here on LI
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island tinkerers needn’t look to other domestic regions or overseas when they want to prototype or manufacture their designs – there are Island-based options that…
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No strikeouts at LaunchPad NYIT pitch night
By GREGORY ZELLER // LaunchPad NYIT’s first pitch night was a hit. With an audience of about 100 packing the auditorium inside NYIT’s student innovation center, an entrepreneurial quintet –…
Industrial gastropub docks at Port Jeff
By JIM McCUNE // Craft brewing is helping popularize a new wave of gastropubs, where small-batch craft beer and spirits are paired with high-level cuisine. Long Island is home to…
State team to visit local eco-dev projects
By GREGORY ZELLER // As it prepares to submit requests for another $100 million or more in state aid, the Long Island Regional Economic Development Council is proudly showing off…
Discovering a world beyond contract research
By GREGORY ZELLER // Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory spinoff Certerra Inc. is finally getting ready to spin off. Founded in 2011 by CSHL associate professor Pavel Osten and venture capitalist…
The Debrief: Kevin Law on Jeter, Trump and taxes
Few individuals play as influential a role in the Long Island economy as Kevin Law, president and CEO of the Long Island Association, chairman of business booster Accelerate Long Island…
Teq inks NY distribution deal
Huntington classroom-technology producer Teq has announced a new distribution deal covering its home turf. Teq has been named the exclusive provider of SMART Education Solutions software and hardware for all…
Hot biotech startup Coferon decamping for Florida
By GREGORY ZELLER // Coferon, a biotech firm headed by former OSI Pharmaceuticals chief Colin Goddard and a rising star in the region’s innovation economy, has abruptly left its incubator…
Envisagenics lands $225K NIH award
Bioinformatics startup Envisagenics has been awarded a $225,000 award from the National Institutes of Health. The Phase I Small Business Innovation Research Award is the largest capital infusion to date…
Hazen’s Angel Dough leads local firms on Inc. list
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Hicksville investment firm that cracked the top 100 and a Holbrook website-development firm has leapt into the top third are among the Long Island companies leading…
A little more help for craft beverages
New York has made life a little easier for craft beverage companies. Three new laws signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo ease burdens on microbreweries, farm distilleries and retail enterprises engaged…
Zach Lippman has big plans for agriculture
By GREGORY ZELLER // You say “tomato.” Zachary Lippman says “scientific breakthrough of global importance.” He doesn’t literally say it, of course. The associate professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory…
LI lagging only NYC in worker pay abuse
Any economy, including an innovative one, is built on the backs of a healthy and well-treated workforce. But at least on its lowest professional levels, Long Island is earning a…
The great disconnect on trust and credibility
By DAN BOWEN // In the B2B marketing world, nothing is more important than trust and credibility. All the website optimization and responsive design in the world means nothing without…
NASA tests its heading-for-Mars rocket engine
NASA hot-fired an RS-25 engine on Thursday, one of four that will power the core stage of the agency’s new Space Launch System and carry the agency’s Orion crew capsule as…