High Tech Rochester, a nonprofit economic-development affiliate of the University of Rochester that owns and operates our member the Lennox Tech Enterprise Center and manages on contract the Rochester BioVenture Center, is conducting a national search for a new president and CEO to replace the recently departed Paul Wetenhall. With approval from Acting CEO David Hessler, we are attaching the job description below as a pdf. If you know of a highly qualified candidate, please contact Anne Ward of Anderson & Associates at the email address listed on the attached.

The National Business Incubation Association (NBIA), to which BIA/NYS and most of our incubator members belong, has highlighted in its online iReview our publication of a Guide to Business Incubation for Elected Officials in New York State.

This Guide, which is freely available under the publications drop-down menu above, was written with editorial independence by Prof. David Lewis of SUNY's University at Albany. Our thanks to David and to SUNY's University at Buffalo Office of Science, Technology and Economic Outreach (STOR), which sponsored an initial print run sufficient to reach many key leaders in the executive and legislative branches. Incubators in NYS are also authorized to print copies locally for distribution to elected officials at the federal, state, county or city level, provided they do not alter the text.

The New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) has become our second sitewide websponsor, joining Marshall & Sterling's incubatorinsurance.com website (see clickable logos in the left-hand column).

NYSTAR has funded certain startup costs of several of our member incubators, and has conducted important internal research that helped incubation assume a more important role in the state's overall economic development strategy. The BIA/NYS would like to thank NYSTAR Executive Director Ed Reinfurt, Executive Deputy Ed Hamilton, and the entire senior staff of NYSTAR for their open and forthright approach to receiving input and programmatic suggestions from the state's incubator community, including at our most recent members' meeting at Stony Brook.

We welcome NYSTAR to sponsorship, which places a clickable logo on every page of the association's website, including our online incubator/tenant database, and in our newsletter. We encourage all our readers to investigate both our sponsors' web pages. If your organization is interested in sponsoring our website, please contact the executive director.