Welcome to “Innovation Pipeline,” an online newsletter updated regularly, highlighting innovation and entrepreneurial activity by RIT students, faculty and staff–as well as companies of RIT’s Venture Creations. If you have a story idea for “Innovation Pipeline,” please submit it to Greg Livadas at Greg.Livadas@rit.edu.
RIT was the first private university admitted to START-UP NY, a business development program for new businesses that create jobs in the state. In return, companies will pay no state or local taxes for 10 years. State officials say the tax benefits will help accelerate entrepreneurialism and job creation across the state on a large scale.
Four RIT-affiliated companies have been accepted into the program:
Latest on START-UP NY: http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=51540
The second cohort of graduates of RIT’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship at Saunders College of Business are six local entrepreneurs who have spent the last six months in the Capacity Building Program. Read more at https://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=51452.
Izet Zdralovic, a graduate of RIT Croatia, won a prestigious Netexplo Award after he co-founded an app that solves mathematical equations. The app received more than 11 million downloads in three months. Read more at https://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=51223.
Six-and-a-half acres of a farm field on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus has been transformed this winter into a massive solar array, which is scheduled to be operational this month.
The 2-megawatt solar energy farm, consisting of 6,138 photovoltaic panels, is among the largest of any college in New York state. The system’s output, which will generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of more than 200 homes a year, will be tied directly into RIT’s central substation for distribution across circuits throughout the 1,300-acre university campus.
To read more, go to https://www.rit.edu//news/story.php?id=51318.
To see a video, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNWaK08Zd78.
Greg Livadas
@GregLivadas