High Tech XL, sited on what is an old Philips high tech campus in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, is currently on the hunt for its first intake of 10 startups, for an up to six month mentoring programme that starts on November 11.
Indeed, it is probably one of the more famous high-tech campuses in the world.
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As Mr. Holt notes, it recently ran a world-class and fierce competition to build a high-tech campus on Roosevelt Island.
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He spoke of 750 bridges repaired and vast investments in a new water tunnel, new parks that line the Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan waterfronts, an extension of the No. 7 subway line and a planned high-tech campus in the city.
Cornell University's president, Dr. David J. Skorton, said he believed Dr. Glimcher had the skills to carry out the medical school's plan to double its research capacity and to help the university compete to develop a new high-tech campus proposed by the Bloomberg administration.
SKOLKOVO, RUSSIA — A business school created by Russia's leading oligarchs presented diplomas to its first graduates and inaugurated a $250 million high-tech campus complex in a suburb of Moscow last month, seeking to stake out a role as the Harvard Business School equivalent for students focused on the so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China).
But recent years have been accompanied by major development: In December 2011, Cornell University announced plans to build a $2 billion high-tech campus on the island's southern end; Main Street, the island's primary commercial thoroughfare, is lining up some new shops and restaurants; and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is scheduled to open in October.
In New York City, Mayor Bloomberg offered $100 million and land on Roosevelt Island (which sits between Manhattan and Queens) to universities to bid to build a high-tech campus focused on engineering and applied science.
