China has built dozens of high-tech research centers, mounted a campaign to lure ethnic Chinese scientists living abroad and overhauled its higher-education system, with a focus on training first-rate scientists and engineers.
The city is also one of the vertices of the Research Triangle Park, one of the most prominent high-tech research and development centers in the U.S. Duke's men's basketball team draws many followers in the area and many different types of festivals take place in the city, including the American Dance Festival and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
Along with neighboring cities Chapel Hill and Raleigh, Durham is part of what's known as the Research Triangle Park, one of the most prominent high-tech research and development centers in the United States.
Yet exploring — or even finding — this patchwork quilt of high-tech research and development centers, factories and California suburbia can be baffling.
► In a Thursday ScienceInsider, Warren Cornwall reported that "[a] new cybersecurity research center, being built in cooperation with private firms and the University of Wisconsin (UW) system, aims to lure more high-tech research dollars to the state, particularly some of the billions spent each year on classified work".
There is already a high-tech research facility on site that holds the frozen genetic material of scores of endangered species, as well as a crane-breeding center.
High-tech research careers that promote clean energy?
And the Milken Institute, a high-tech research organization, ranks Rochester just 71st out of 315 metropolitan areas based on the concentration of high-tech business.
For China and Russia, ransacking Western firms for high-tech research and other intellectual property is tempting.
It suggested a number of uses: a health care center, a multi-university graduate center, a high-tech center for many companies, a modern research and development center, or a mixed-use complex.
