R&D to Commercialization
Driving cutting-edge research in several fields, including semiconductor devices, wind energy, pharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and chemicals. With one of the nation’s highest concentrations of jobs in the physical, engineering, and life sciences R&D services industry, the cluster attracts more than $1 billion in private research spending annually. Leveraging assets and talent at the Albany Nanotech Complex, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University at Albany’s ETEC Building and Health Sciences Campus, companies are continuing the Capital Region’s tradition of innovation that began with the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady – the nation’s first industrial research facility in 1900.
Sample Companies: IBM, GlobalFoundries, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, GE Research, SI Group, Curia, and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals