NEW YORK, NY (April 10, 2013) – Tech campuses merge entrepreneurial spirit and academic research, promote tech transfer, and cultivate an innovation ecosystem.
After receiving the winning bid in New York City’s 2011 Applied Sciences NYC competition, Cornell University’s and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s Cornell NYC Tech campus has already welcomed its first class of students this January. Currently housed in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, in space donated by Google, Cornell Tech’s temporary campus will move to its permanent location on Roosevelt Island in 2017.
A successful example of a German university's ability to spur regional job growth is the TU Dortmund University. Working hand-in-hand with one of the largest technology parks in Germany and the third largest in Europe, the TechnologieZentrumDortmund (Technology Park Dortmund), TU Dortmund University is testimony to the impact a tech campus can have on cultivating an innovation ecosystem.
Albrecht Ehlers, Chancellor of TU Dortmund University, will present this best practice model on April 17, 2013, at the German Center for Research and Innovation. He will talk about the role of universities as engines of innovation and entrepreneurship and university-industry interaction as a driving force for regional structural change. He will be joined by Andre van Hall, the Director of the BioMedizinZentrumDortmund at the Technology Park Dortmund. Mr. van Hall will discuss technology transfer, the initiation of cooperation between industry and science, and how the Technology Park Dortmund became the largest incubator in Germany.
Craig Gotsman, the first and founding director of the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute (TCII), the program at the heart of the Cornell NYC Tech applied sciences campus, will share Cornell NYC Tech’s plans to grow the hi-tech sector in New York City. The new tech campus will provide graduate-level education for 2,000 scientists and engineers with a strong entrepreneurial, tech transfer, and commercialization focus.
The event, which is organized by the German Center for Research and Innovation in cooperation with ConRuhr North America, will take place on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the German House New York (871 United Nations Plaza, First Avenue, btw. 48th & 49th Streets).
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