Is New York the Nano State?

Another side to our region’s high-tech can be found up the Hudson at the University of Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering. With help from New York State, the National Science Foundation, and over $6 billion in private investment to date, the Nanoscale College has grown a research complex and incubation space that has attracted scientists and companies on a global scale.

They ain’t studying the physics behind Facebook. They’re focused on basic research and development in solar energy cells, new materials, nanoscale engineering, semiconductor electronics, and something called nanomedicine.

While the natives of Manhattan are excited about their startup scene, it may be that the more significant high-tech spot in NY State, one that may rival that other place in California, is coalescing around the state’s perpetually overlooked second city.