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December 18, 2006
Ohio awards nearly $168 million in high-tech grants
Akron Beacon Journal, December 15, 2006
Nine high-tech projects will receive a total of about $168 million in grants from the Ohio Third Frontier program, including a $60 million award to the Cleveland Clinic for a new heart research center, the state announced. Swagelok Co., a Solon-based business that makes industrial valves and fittings, received $5.5 million to work with Case Western Reserve University on its patented process of carburizing steel—using carbon to make steel harder and less vulnerable to corrosion—at a low temperature. Read article.
November 15, 2006
Six projects get NorTech money: $1 million will help turn technology ideas into moneymakers
The Plain Dealer, November 15, 2006
NorTech, the Northeast Ohio technology development organization, has distributed $1 million in grant money from the Fund for Our Economic Future to support the commercialization of six projects: A collaboration among the National Center for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, the Case Center for Imaging Research, and local companies Arteriocyte and Athersys will receive $310,000 to develop ways to improve stroke therapies. The Wright Fuel Cell Group will receive $150,000 to build portable fuel cells created with Ohio-made products. Case Western Reserve University, Graf-Tech, HydroGen, Contained Energy, Northeast Hydrogen and Chemsultants are part of the fuel cell group. Read article.