Corporate sponsors can be very generous contributors to incubator facilities and universities. They sponsor labs, equipment, and other very public areas to gain visibility. It is important at the same time to realize that these companies exist to create profits – their own. They desire to gain access to new technologies and advances in product areas pertinent to their lines of business. Corporations have been known to advance technologies that can benefit them and also to

Massachusetts and its cities need to create scale up shared use facilities leveraging existing built assets. An appreciation exists from brilliant ideas coming out of world class universities, but no follow through to job creation in multiple industries. Bio and medical related businesses have done exceedingly well in the Boston / Cambridge area, but what about the rest of the state? Innovation centers can be industry or functionally focused to take the ideas from incubators