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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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Locations are bringing higher ed resources and high-tech businesses together to plant the seeds for market-ready advanced technology at incubators and innovation institutes, and to create the STEM-savvy workforce that will fill these new jobs. Chicago is rising up in ranks to become the next big place for technology innovation.

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Business Report: Chicago Will Host Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation Institute

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President Obama has awarded Chicago a $70 million grant from the Department of Defense to build a $320-million Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute. Three other innovation hubs are being built in Canton, MI near Detroit, Youngstown, OH and Raleigh, N.C. The center offers advanced training and development services.

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Top 10 Construction Companies in the U.S.

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The Rhode Island-based firm constructed a state-of-the-art engineering lab and academic facility for students at the Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Gilbane was brought in to construct the new four-story, 78,000-square-foot academic building for engineering innovation and sciences.

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Less Is More In New England

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The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training reported that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for April 2017 was 4.3 NCS Global has built a LEED Certified Silver facility for their global headquarters on Innovation Drive. I’m thrilled to see another business building here in Rhode Island.”.

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Rubber Vs Felt Wading Boots: Which One to Buy?

Work Gearz

These soles are made of a thick, heavy piece of felt fabric, that is then attached to the bottom of the wading boot. When felt makes contact with the felt surface, the felt fabric molds to whatever the shape is of the surface and provides superb traction thanks to the material’s roughness and swelling when submerged in water.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Alabama Innovation Fund: As part of the implementation of Accelerate Alabama, this fund was created to maximize the use of the State’s economic development resources by leveraging annual research and development expenditures by Public Universities within the State to generate resources which can be used to support economic development initiatives.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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ALASKA GROWTH CAPITAL: Provides financing to nontraditional borrowers/businesses that use innovative technology, are in rural Alaska and are minority-owned. ARIZONA INNOVATION ACCELERATOR FUND: An $18.2 This is an innovative new program that will help strengthen local supply networks and sectors.

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