'Landmark' agreement-NanoTech

[Clickclack]

Sen. Schumer is billing this as a 'landmark' agreement. Nano is starting to really pick up steam......do they have any room to put another building over there? Drove by there just yesterday....looks pretty packed as the new building is well on it's way to completion.

 

How big of a benefit is Nano really to the UatA and is it really felt on campus or are they kind of off to the side doing their thing? I know it's a big deal in terms of research funding etc. but is the impact really felt on campus?

[danefan]

If nothing else, it brings high paying jobs to the CR - or in other words, it brings highly paid employees to the CR. The jobs aren't likely to go to locals (at least the highest paying ones), but they will bring people with $$$$ to the CR. Highly compensated people means increased revenue for business.

[Classof72/74]

As DaneFan says, its good for the Capital Region in terms of jobs, economic multipliers, etc., but IMHO the impact for the rest of UA is minimal. Have you heard of any $$ connected with Nano flowing to other elements of the campus, e.g. Athletics (such as support from Nano partners) or even SoB, which at one point was touting their new building as Business and NanoTech? Me neither

[Dane96]

Well, because quite frankly, you the hit the nail on the head. At most schools, that $$ would flow to the other departments. IN reality, our school of business isn't in the top anything. A new building isn't going to help that either. You ask anyone in the business and legal world at Albany about either school and they will go, "HUH?"

 

Kids aren't highly recruited from the school of business, as in "WE NEED TO GET THAT KID...HE WENT TO UA's Biz School." Nanotech, while AWESOME (I worked a Nano legal case this year and it is fascinating stuff), will be a periphial field to all but those IN INDUSTRIES WHO DIRECTLY DEAL WITH SEMICONDUCTORS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY.

[GreatDanes06]

here is info from the TU about what is going on...probably a bigger article tmrw:

 

http://blogs.timesunion.com/business/?p=3457

[MRSGDG]

Nice Article in US News that mentions UA

http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/sm...ll-wonders.html

[UAalum72]

On a related note, yesterday's T-U had a front-page article on one proposal for the coming rebuild of the Washington Ave - Fuller Road - I-90 intersection, which would provide for more expansion of the Nano center by moving Wash. to the other side of land currently owned by UA but cut off by the roadway.

 

Paving way for NanoTech growth?