June 22, 2008–Chicago Sun-Times
New company hopes to turn non-food plants into ethanol
By Sandra Guy
A startup company that is renting space at the Illinois Institute of Technology is looking past corn to find biofuels, especially as ethanol production gets much of the blame for skyrocketing grocery prices.
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May 20, 2008–Illinois Venture Capital Association Newsletter
MVS Presenter Updates: LiquidTalk CEO David Peak
Excerpt: When LiquidTalk began to take off and we needed a brick-and-mortar address, the IIT's University Technology Park made a lot of sense. Our experience has been tremendously positive. We pay low rent, have access to student engineering talent and we are situated on a campus setting in the dynamically changing South Loop area of Chicago. I would especially recommend this to new start-ups that initially need a small amount of space and want a one-stop shop in terms of resources.
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April 22, 2008–Business Week
A Better Gambit for Illinois: Bio-Crops
By Stuart Luman
Excerpt: One of his local bets is Chromatin, a startup based in a 5,000-square-foot lab on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus, with a separate research facility in Champaign. The venture has pioneered a way to insert batches of genes into plant cells, increasing the success rate of bioengineered seeds for drought- and pest-resistance or other desired traits.
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April 2, 2008–Chicago Sun-Times
State gains tech jobs
By Sandra Guy
Excerpt: The University Technology Park at the Illinois Institute of Technology on Chicago's South Side is an example of the high-tech job growth. More than 100 of its 350 employees have been hired since the park opened in 2006.
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March 12, 2008–InfoStor.com
Cleversafe commercializes open source storage
By Kevin Komiega
Excerpt: The Cleversafe project was launched on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) as an open-source storage initiative with one goal: creating a "storage Internet." Fast forward two years and the technology has grown from an idea into a reality with the news that Cleversafe will soon make its open-source technology available as commercial products that will allow end users to build and manage their own Dispersed Storage Networks (dsNets).
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March 9, 2008–Chicago Sun-Times
Technology Park draws U. of C. startups, targets companies from NU
By Sandra Guy
Excerpt: IIT has already attracted the Technology Park growth companies that originated at the University of Chicago, and it intends to lure companies created through sponsored research from Northwestern University's medical center, too. "This is not just a real estate play," said David Baker, executive director of the University Technology Park at IIT. "This is all about moving innovation forward and attracting high-quality faculty who need a home to commercialize their intellectual property."
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March 3, 2008–Chicago Sun-Times
Cleversafe goes for the green
By Brad Spirrison
Excerpt: Cleversafe, which is headquartered at the University Technology Park at the Illinois Institute of Technology, will market and distribute its storage products via as many as 20 reseller partners. The company's novel approach to data storage involves dispersing bits of information via a network of 11 hosting providers around the world. While information stored in any one node is illegible, Cleversafe software can access data from only a fraction of the hosting providers and reconstitute it back to its original form. The company has long sponsored the Cleversafe.org open source software community to foster and access innovation in dispersed storage technologies.
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March 2, 2008–Reuters.com
Start-ups go back to school to get to work
Excerpt: At many of the nation's top technology universities, school is not just for the students.
That's the case at the Illinois Institute of Technology, known for its culturally-diverse population, modern architecture by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and proximity to downtown Chicago. There, more than 20 start-ups in industries ranging from software to biotech have set up shop at the university's technology park.
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February 13, 2008–Chicago Sun-Times
Sox Park area: new ballgame?
By David Roeder
Excerpt: The ballpark environs aren't as isolated as they once were. Even office space might not be a stretch. Just across the expressway is the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology, currently buzzing as a home for high-tech startups.
The Sun-Times' Sandra Guy said the campus' University Technology Park houses about 25 firms and would add 30 more once a second phase is complete. The school also provides space for 10 to 15 growth companies or nonprofit research centers.
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April 3, 2006–Chicago Tribune
Hybrid enhancement
Voice of the People
Excerpt: Jim Mateja missed the point in his March 31 article
on hybrid vehicles by not providing the whole story ("Hybrids burn up more energy in the
making," Business, March 31). Mr. Mateja correctly points out that the reason more electricity
is required to manufacture hybrid vehicles is because "it takes a lot of energy to produce
the electric systems for hybrids as well as exotic lightweight glass, aluminum and steel
that goes into them."
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March 5, 2006—Chicago Sun-Times
Technology Park to Spiff Up IIT campus
By Sandra Guy
Business Reporter
Excerpt: The once-fledgling technology park on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology is brimming with new tenants and sprouting a landscape makeover. The University Technology Park at IIT, to be built in three phases over 10 years, is the largest commercial investment on Chicago's South Side since the construction of the new Sox stadium in the early 1990s.
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> Sidebar: Startups Flock to Tech Incubator
October 28, 2005—Chicago
Sun-Times
IIT tech park promising investment for South Side:
15 acres being developed
Excerpt: The largest commercial investment on Chicago's
South Side since U.S. Cellular Field's construction will result
in a new technology park at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The University Technology Park at IIT, to be built in three phases
in the next 10 years, will cover 15 acres and ultimately stretch
from Wabash on the east to Federal on the west, and from 34th Street
to 35th Street .
October 24, 2005—Chicago Tribune
Incubators give companies a start: New firms find space, bargain
rents to begin increasing production
By Ann Meyer, Special to the Tribune
Excerpt: …Illinois Institute of Technology on Chicago's
South Side is actively leasing 6,000 square feet of space. The
Incubator at University Technology Park at IIT plans to expand
to 30,000 square feet by 2007, said David Baker, vice president
of External Affairs. The university also is working to create space
for established companies, including those that graduate from the
Incubator, Baker said.
August 13, 2005—Chicago Tribune
IIT helps fill gap in technology lab space
By Jon Van
Excerpt: The IIT Incubator facility of 6,000 square feet
will provide space for three or four small companies initially,
and plans are to expand it over the years to 30,000 square feet,
said David Baker, the school’s vice president for External
Affairs…The first tenant of IIT's tech park will be All
Cell Technologies, LLC. and Sun Phocus Technologies, LLC, two start-ups
with ties to Said Al-Hallaj, an IIT professor.
August 2005—Near West Gazette
IIT To Build Tech Park
By Michael Comstock
Excerpt: Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) over the
next ten years will complete the 1.5 million square foot University
Technology Park AT (UTP), an industrial park serving companies
with expertise and product development capabilities in new and
emerging technologies such as life sciences, engineering, and chemistry.
The UTP will help small companies and startups in the incubator
stage—typically companies taken from the concept stage into
an initial production stage with two to five employees—access
resource they may not be able to afford otherwise.
December 28, 2005—Chicago Sun-Times
A thundering herd that needs direction
By Dave Newbart, staff reporter
Cleversafe founder Chris Gladwin talks about finding quality employees.
Excerpts: Generation Y descends on America's workplaces, a harsh reality sets in. Jobs, until recently, have been hard to come by, and average salaries in real dollars are lower than those their parents earned at the same age.
Generation Y Grows Up
At his two previous tech start-up companies, Chris Gladwin followed the "standard model" for finding...
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