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| Sharon Gillett, Department of Telecommunications and Cable Commissioner, speaking at the Becket Town Hall last August |
Dialing up broadband
Bill to create Massachusetts Broadband Incentive Fund now resides in House Ways and Means Committee
BOSTON – Legislation to authorize $40 million for a Massachusetts Broadband Incentive Fund and create the Massachusetts Broadband Institute has received a very positive stamp of approval from the Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets.
Innovation Institute Investments
Center for
Neuroprosthetics
at WPI
WORCESTER – In April, the John Adams Innovation Institute approved an award of $150,000 to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute to develop a Center of Neuroprosthetics.
Marine Science & Technology Network
FALL RIVER – In April, the John Adams Innovation Institute awarded $44,303 to the SouthCoast Development Partnership.
Clean Energy Fellowship Program
BOSTON – In April, the John Adams Innovation Institute approved an award $97,000 to Clean Energy Fellowships.
Dr. Carlos
Martínez-Vela
Innovation: a crucial process for the Massachusetts economy
The ability of the state’s economy to reinvent itself can no longer be taken for granted
By Dr. Carlos Martínez-Vela
FROM WHALING in New Bedford to the Springfield Armory, from the New England Glass works to Polaroid, from the Merrimack’s monumental textile mills to minicomputers in Route 128, from the Blackstone Canal to the life sciences in Kendall Square, from NECCO to Novartis, transformation and resilience define the industrial history of Massachusetts.
MLSC Matching Grant Program begins NIH modeled peer review process
At inaugural meeting, review panel considers cutting-edge research initiatives
Boston –On June 3rd, a group of nine distinguished scientists from across the state convened in Boston to serve as the first reviewers for what was organized as an NIH-styled peer review process that reviewed and scored the first matching grant proposals submitted to the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC).
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MLSC Scientific Advisory Board
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BOSTON – The first meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center convened May 7 in the Governor’s Council Room on the third floor of the Statehouse—almost one year to the day that Gov. Deval Patrick announced his $1 billion Life Sciences initiative at BIO 2007. Read more >> |
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‘ Gateway Cities’ leaders joined Lt. Gov Murray in the Old State House for the signing of a compact that positions the Commonwealth’s historic cities for the 21st century. (MassInc/M.Manning) |
A new, urban agenda takes shape–
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Choosing the right path for regional economic development
Patrick Administration shares its views at Innovation Institute's Governing Board meeting on how best
to organize state resources in concert with shared regional priorities
BOSTON – Fitchburg Mayor Lisa Wong, one of four presenters scheduled to discuss regional economic development strategies in Massachusetts, apologized for being late. The overseas board of directors of one of the larger employers in her city, she explained, had just announced plans that morning it would be closing down its facility in two weeks. For Mayor Wong, the immediate crisis she faced was a direct result of the city’s history of over-reliance on manufacturing |
and its lack of proactive leadership. “Fitchburg sat back and waited for someone to build a bridge to us, instead of being proactive about bridging the divide,” she said. Indeed, this real-life economic crisis confronting Mayor Wong, who had just celebrated her second month on the job, provided an urgent, provocative context to the dialogue around the table at the March 10 meeting of the Innovation Institute Governing Board. |
The discussion had begun with a remarkably transparent sharing of the Patrick administration’s plans. The governor has determined that job creation and the revitalization of regions outside of Greater Boston will be top priorities of his administration. Towards that end, he has asked the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development to develop a comprehensive, long-range, coherent strategy for regional economic development, with the goal of organizing state resources in concert with shared regional priorities. |
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