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Regional, State, and Local Nanotechnology Initiatives and Resources
Regional, state, and local organizations have a special role in establishing the infrastructure, preparing a skilled workforce, and supporting industry with a special focus on small business. Supporting partnerships with such organizations has been a goal since the NNI’s inception, when the first regional meetings were organized in Southern California and Texas in 2001, and in Oklahoma in 2009. The fourth Regional, State, and Local Initiatives in Nanotechnology Workshop is being held in Portland, Oregon in May 2012.
These programs exist to provide funding, support, mechanisms for resource sharing, and facilitate collaboration for nanotechnology companies and researchers.
- Albany NanoTech (New York)
- Arizona Nanotechnology Cluster (Arizona)
- Birck Nanotechnology Center (Indiana)
- California NanoSystems Institute (California)
- Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance (Colorado)
- Connecticut Innovations (Connecticut)
- Girvan Institute (California)
- High Technology Innovation Corporation (Hawaii)
- KY Nanonet (Kentucky)
- Maine Technology Institute (Maine)
- Maryland Technology Development Corporation (Maryland)
- Massachusetts Nanotechnology Initiative (Massachusetts)
- Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (Massachusetts)
- Micro and Nanotechnology Commercialization Education Foundation-MANCEF (New Mexico)
- Mississippi Technology Alliance (Mississippi)
- MN Nano (Minnesota)
- NanoBusiness Commercialization Association (nanoBCA-- headquarted in Connecticut)
- Nanoelectronic Research Initiative (HQ in Durham, NC)--Part of the Semiconductor Research Corporation
- nanoSTAR Institute (Virginia)
- Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK) Center (Pennsylvania-- part of Penn State)
- North Carolina Nanotechnology (North Carolina)
- North Dakota Centers of Excellence (North Dakota)
- Northern California Nanotechnology Initiative (California)
- Northern Virginia Technology Council (Virginia)
- Ohio Third Frontier (Ohio)
- Oklahoma Nanotechnology Initiative (Oklahoma)
- Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) (Oregon)
- Pennsylvania Nanomaterials Commercialization Center (Pennsylvania)
- TechConnectWV (West Virginia)
- Texas Emerging Technology Fund (Texas)
- The Nanotechnology Institute (Pennsylvania)
- The Nano-Network (Ohio)
- WV Nano Initiative (West Virginia)
Mechanisms and Programs for NNI Interaction with States
The Nanomanufacturing, Industry Liaison, and Innovation (NILI) Working Group assembled a database of mechanisms and programs for NNI-member agencies to interact and collaborate with regional, state, local, and industry organizations to support nanotechnology development and technology transfer. The Industry and State Interactions database is organized by agency.