The Capital Region is increasingly being recognized as a hot spot for millennials, and particularly those fresh out of college or starting their professional careers. Forbes in June ranked Albany the nation’s 21st best city for young professionals, tying Atlanta. That followed ValuePenguin’s ranking of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy metropolitan statistical area
Right: A programmable robot grasps a bearing to be pressed onto a wheel set. For 117 years, Simmons Machine Tool Corporation has been manufacturing specialized machine tools and automation systems that the railway industry uses for rail wheel set maintenance and production. The Albany company employs about 100 people at
Times Union By: Eric Anderson Officials cut the ribbon at Dimension Fabricators The nearly $2 million solar array consists of 3,300 panels and produces up to a million watts, enough electricity to supply as many as 120 homes, said Scott Stevens, Dimension Fabricators’ president. A number of officials attended, including
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Announcement Made at Dimension Fabricators NY-Sun Supported Solar Array Ribbon-Cutting Supports State’s Goal of 50 Percent Electricity to Come from Renewable Sources by 2030 The New York Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the Center for Economic Growth (CEG) launched the first state-supported Solarize campaign aimed
Troy Record By Nicholas Buonanno COHOES, N.Y. >> For a second consecutive year, the Spindle City has ranked as New York’s fastest growing city, experiencing 2.3 percent year-over-year population growth as of July 1, 2016. According to a Center for Economic Growth analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data, Cohoes saw
Times Union By: Larry Rulison Bob Samson, the former IBMer who is now the chief information officer for the state, will be the keynote speaker at the Center for Economic Growth’s annual technology awards in Schenectady on June 29. Samson was named the New York State Chief Information Officer at
The Daily Gazette By: John Cropley Technology changes make field a challenge Economic development is a journey rather than a destination, especially when it involves high-tech industries such as computer chips, speakers at a semiconductor conference said Thursday. In various ways, each made the point that technology evolves so
Times Union By: Larry Rulison Saratoga Springs – Don’t forget what – and who – got you here. That is what Charles Wessner, a professor of innovation policy at Georgetown University, told the crowd Thursday at the Center for Economic Growth’s 87/90 Semiconductor Summit. Wessner, who has been studying the
Albany Business Review By: Shannon Sweeney Albany area colleges and universities are enrolling graduate and postdoctoral students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at a faster rate than the state as a whole. This region is graduating more science and engineering students, according to a Center for Economic Growth analysis.
Science graduate student enrollment growth outpaces state, nation for postdocs The Capital Region’s pipeline of highly educated talent is expanding, with area colleges and universities enrolling science graduate students and postdoctorates at rates faster than those for state. Even more, area institutions are awarding greater numbers of science, technology, engineering
