A new list of business incubators affiliated with campuses of the State University of New York (SUNY) has been published by SUNY Research Foundation as part of a broader SUNY map. For access to the incubator fact sheet, click here or see the attachment below. 

We are very proud that nearly all the SUNY-affiliated business incubators are operated by entities that have chosen to join our statewide association, which also includes incubators operated by regional economic-development nonprofits, private firms, and independent colleges and universities.

For the second year in a row, the SUNY Research Foundation will be a lead sponsor of our annual meeting (details here and here). We salute SUNY for its leadership in economic development and thank the RF for its strong support of statewide sharing of knowledge and best practice.

Our member the Orange County Business Accelerator recently hosted and co-sponsored the Hudson Valley Capital Forum of the Upstate Venture Association of New York (UVANY). For more information, see the Accelerator's blog entry.

The Accelerator also recently announced it has signed Parallel Media, publisher of two regional online news sites, as a new associate client.

Accelerator business development director Peter Gregory was also featured in an interview published by Hudson Valley Magazine. 

Michael J. Hickey, executive in residence at our member the Siena College incubator program, was elected executive vice chair of the board of the Albany-based Center for Economic Growth (CEG), itself a member of our association. For more information, please see the CEG news release.

New York City Economic Development Corp. has posted video interviews with Pixable and Ecologic Solutions, two of the early graduates of our supporting member the NYU-Poly Varick Street incubator, which a partnership with NYCEDC and Trinity Real Estate. 

Pixable developed an application allowing users to build on their Facebook and Twitter photos, and Ecologic supplies environmentally friendly cleaning supplies to the institutional market. Ecologic was a client of the NYSERDA-sponsored NYC ACRE clean-energy incubator that is collocated with the Varick Street incubator. Both entrepreneurs credit the incubator programs with their early success and their ability to stay local after graduation from the incubator programs. Videos embedded after the break.

TPF Enterprises, a new-materials product-development firm, and Programmable Equipment Company, developer of software for test and calibration of industrial equipment, are the two newest tenants at our supporting member the UB Technology Incubator.

Both firms are taking advantage of partnership opportunities at the University at Buffalo, though neither is a spin-off of the university. Both are run by independent entrepreneurs, one an alumnus. For more information, see the university's news release. 

Our supporting member NYU-Poly held an open house for its planned new incubator at 20 Jay Street in the DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass) neighborhood of Brooklyn, an upcoming center of innnovation.

Like NYU-Poly's ground-breaking Varick Street incubator, the DUMBO Incubator is a partnership with the New York City Economic Development Corporation and a commercial real-estate owner, in this case Two Trees Management, which has done extensive development in DUMBO. For photos, see NYCEDC's tumblr and Flickr photoset.

Residents from Syracuse neighborhoods hard hit by the economic downturn will be positioned for advanced training in the clean-energy sector under a program at our member the South Side Innovation Center (SSIC), newly funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA).

According to a news release from NYSERDA, the program will run in collaboration with Associated Builders & Contractors, the National Association of Minority Contractors (upstate chapter), Onondaga Community College, and several other partners and resident programs at SSIC. More coverage in the Daily Orange student newspaper at Syracuse University and the Post-Standard. 

Popular Science carries an article featuring Ceno Technologies, Inc., a developer of advanced-particle coatings for "stealth" defense applications, such as the successor to the B2 bomber. Ceno is a tenant at our supporting member the Thomas Beecher Jr. Innovation Center. The Innovation Center provides flexible office and laboratory incubator space at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. More coverage in Buffalo Business First.