Business Facilties Features Innovation Valley
Business Facilities magazine, a publication aimed at corporations interested in locating a new facility and the real estate consultants (known as site selection consultants) that work with those corporations, recently featured the Innovation Valley. The magazine's November edition focused on "Extreme Technology Sites," and used the Knoxville-Oak Ridge area as its primary example of a location paring technology and business development.
The article opened with this statement:
"When like-minded business people, education, and public dollars come together, big things can happen. It’s not a prerequisite for technological innovation, but a sampling of locations around the world where scientific breakthroughs are taking place shows that the combination can bring about vibrant economic communities producing leading-edge products and services.
Take the Knoxville-Oak Ridge, TN region, for example. Also known as the Innovation Valley, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) here works in tandem with the private sector and the University of Tennessee (UT) toward common goals that include biotechnology initiatives such as developing alternative fuels, nanotechnology research, and neutron production."
The article goes on to talk about the research being conducted at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), and the University of Tennessee (UT).
To read the article click here.
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