Silicon Valley is synonymous with transformational ideas. Recently, Ohio State University President Michael Drake and I traveled to that part of California - with others from the Columbus business and educational communities - to visit companies and universities and learn how they describe their creativity and success.

Columbus, too, is full of creative minds and critical thinkers. As leaders of Ohio State University, ranked as one of the world's most innovative universities, and Battelle, the world's largest nonprofit research and development organization, we see so many bright people who have found their professional homes in Ohio and within our institutions.

The next important discovery will start with engaged people imagining what could be, using ingenuity to create answers to problems we all share and taking solutions to scale through entrepreneurship. Read More.

When Chris Gladwin signed a lease with us in 2005, making his year-old company the first startup to move to University Tech Park, I felt this was the start of something big.

But there's no way I could have known that a decade later, Cleversafe would garner worldwide recognition - or that Chris would show his gratitude with a $7.6 million gift that will foster the next generation of computer science innovators here at Illinois Tech. Read more.
 

KAUST welcomed a prestigious group of local and international solar energy sector experts from academia and industry to the University's Solar Future 2015 Symposium on November 7-11. The event focused on the most recent results in the field of solar energy conversion (photovoltaics). Representatives ranged from national laboratories, government institutions and universities. The three-and-half-day symposium featured keynote presentations, plenary talks and poster sessions. The event was organized by the KAUST Solar and Photovoltaics Engineering Research Center (SPERC), with the support of the KAUST Office of Sponsored Research and the KAUST Industry Engagement Office. Read more.