Originally Published MX November/December 2004

BUSINESS PLANNING & TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

Economic development agencies throughout the United States consider companies with a specialty in the life sciences to be very attractive businesses. When successful, such companies can create a substantial number of jobs and sustainable economic growth. But competing to get medtech companies to locate in a particular region often calls for extraordinary coordination among a wide variety of public and private entities.

High-performance polycrystalline thin-film transistors (TFTs) on a flexible polymer. These TFTs were made using a proprietary process by NanoHorizons Inc. (State College, PA), in which transistors are fabricated on a high-temperature, reusable, rigid substrate, and transferred to a flexible polymer or foil material. (Photo courtesy NANOHORIZONS INC.).