Collaboration Leads to New Technology Center
Posted by Advance Northeast Ohio - 09.19.2011
Lorain County Community College has broken ground on a new technology center focused on commercializing sensor products, an industry estimated to be in excess of $100 billion worldwide. The center, to be named the Richard Desich SMART Commercialization Center for Microsystems, should help grow an important innovation-driven industry in Northeast Ohio.
When the SMART Center is complete in 2013 it will be a three-story, 46,000-square-foot facility featuring class 100, class 1,000 and class 10,000 clean rooms, general lab space and customer incubation areas.
"This capacity represents extraordinary opportunities for business and job creation in high growth industries as well as training opportunities for LCCC students," said LCCC President Dr. Roy A. Church. Fifteen companies in the microsystems industry have already expressed interest in utilizing the SMART Center and 13 others plan to recommend the space as a resource for product commercialization.
Is there another up-and-coming industry that you feel would benefit from a collaboration similar to the one that led to The Smart Center?
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