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Incubator Opens to High-tech Businesses
Bear with me, this story isn't about West Lafayette, Ind. It is about Lawrence's future. But Lawrence's crystal ball, these days, might be found in the home of the Purdue Boilermakers. Lawrence's new high-tech business center - more commonly called an incubator - is meant to be a one-stop shop for KU researchers who want to take their findings and turn them into businesses.

For the Love of Incubators: NEPA Couple Leads Region's Renaissance
The heads of two closely related business incubators, the Scranton Enterprise Center and the Innovation Center at Wilkes-Barre, were in the car recently on their way down to Harrisburg to accept a grant they had jointly applied for. One wanted to plan their discussion with the grantor, while the other said "let's just worry about it when we get there." Like an old married couple, they prepared their separate ways and during the meeting, in which they formally accepted funding that will go a long way in promoting small business in their region, they fed off one another successfully.

New Owners More Growth Ahead for Turning
A private equity firm based in Florida says that its acquisition of Turning Technologies LLC demonstrates the company has impressive growth potential and that its location downtown is an advantage, not a detriment, to more growth. The company, started in the Youngstown Business Incubator, leases space in the Taft Technology Center next door. There's been no desire or discussion to move the company, Broderick said.

Feds Help Fund Innovation
With federal, state, county and local officials standing in the sweltering heat Tuesday morning, Willie Taylor made the wait well worth their while. Taylor, regional director of the U.S. Economic Development Administration's Philadelphia Regional Office, presented a check for $2,263,500 that will be used to construct a new building for the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business Industry's Innovation Center.