Our supporting member the Syracuse Technology Garden has relaunched its website. Please visit http://www.thetechgarden.com for a look at this handsome and modern site, which includes not only a complete set of information on the incubator itself, but also links to a wide variety of resources for entrepreneurs. Please join us in congratulating Tech Garden director Paul Brooks and his staff on this major upgrade!

Our member the Syracuse Technology Garden will partner with a Florida agency on a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to prepare defense-technology companies in both states to commercialize new technologies.

High Tech Rochester, a nonprofit economic-development affiliate of the University of Rochester that owns and operates our member the Lennox Tech Enterprise Center and manages on contract the Rochester BioVenture Center, is conducting a national search for a new president and CEO to replace the recently departed Paul Wetenhall. With approval from Acting CEO David Hessler, we are attaching the job description below as a pdf. If you know of a highly qualified candidate, please contact Anne Ward of Anderson & Associates at the email address listed on the attached.

BullEx Digital Safety, a Troy-based client of our member incubator the Watervliet Innovation Center, recently announced delivery of a 30-foot, four-compartment, live-fire training simulator to the U.S. Coast Guard training center in Cape May, N.J. The WIC provides a platform of shared and customized servcies to companies in the homeland security, national security, and defense-technology markets.