Temperature check: Break out the short sleeves, dear readers, as we bask in the early Spring’s warmest stretch – and the innovation economy heats up accordingly. Yes, it’s been…
Splashdown: Welcome to Friday, brave socioeconomic explorers, as we complete another stellar five-day socioeconomic mission. Nobody deserves a relaxing weekend more than you (except maybe the intrepid crew of…
By TOM MARINER // The world’s largest healthcare-solutions provider sure didn’t start that way. But what began in 1932 as a neighborhood pharmacy in Queens has certainly evolved into a…
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…
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…
But who’s counting: Well done, intrepid innovators! You’ve bested another Summertime workweek and earned yourself another two-day respite. Even better, there’s a three-day respite on the near horizon! In…
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…
Economics 101: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we hurdle the hump of another busy workweek – and with foreign governments, the U.S. Congress and common sense apparently powerless…
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,…