Of that building's 1.2 million square feet of commercial space, 780,000 square feet is leased to technology and media companies like Scripps Networks (which owns the Food Network) and Yext, an Internet marketing company, said Michael Phillips, a managing director of Jamestown Properties, which owns the building.
His lab caught the attention of Bill Gates in 2012, during his search for a revolution in birth control (which has already spawned plans for a graphene condom), and Langer subsequently leased the technology to Microchips, a company already working on a micro-dosing implant for osteoporosis.
Odigo, a startup that builds instant messaging clients and leases the technology to partners that want a branded messaging application, has 1.1 million.
But Ford is leasing considerably less technology than Nissan.
The Crown Estate said that leasing the sites for technology development was "critical" for the UK to unlock the potential of wave and tidal energy.
In 1985, Mr. Terk sold his penthouse and founded the Terk Technologies Corporation, leasing space in Westchester, then in Syosset and Plainview.
The new business model calls for small staffs, leased engines, borrowed technology, used haulers, rented workshops, cheap motels and commercial aviation.
Mr. Huttenlocher said the co-location buildings, which are to be leased by private technology companies in the hope that they will work with students, advance that trend by integrating industry into the campus itself.
With $6.2 million in VC funding in 2011, his site offers lease marketing technology to thousands of property managers and brokers.
Graham spent $1.4 million on two Eurocopter commercial choppers and another $2.6 million on the laser technology they'd been leasing from Saab, Inc., of Sweden.
