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Top-flight Research Institutions
Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories are pioneers in fields like optics, electronics, microsystems, photonics. The two have also collaborated to create the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, which will give researchers from universities and private industry access to the labs’ equipment and resources.
A Flagship University
The University of New Mexico School of Engineering is a major source of research and workforce training for tech industries. Recently, the school received a $1 million National Science Foundation grant for research of nanofluidics. In fall of 2004, U.S. News and World Report ranked the school among the best programs at schools where the highest degree offered is a doctorate.
Scientific Alliance
Public and private research institutions have joined together to form the New Mexico Technology Research Corridor Collaborative, which promotes commercialization of publicly funded research and technology.
Members:
- Air Force Research Laboratory
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- National Center for Genome Resources
- New Mexico State University
- New Mexico Tech
- The MIND Institute
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Santa Fe Institute
- University of New Mexico
- University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
- White Sands Missile Range
State-Funded Venture Capital
The New Mexico State Investment Council (SIC) provides financing for start-ups and expansions. It is also an investor in the New Mexico Venture Capital Fund, which has funded 12 New Mexico companies to date, to the tune of $198 million.
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The Albuquerque metropolitan area is the hub of New Mexico’s tech industry. It is home to Sandia National Laboratories, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute, and Intel, among others.
Los Alamos National Laboratory is an R&D powerhouse. In September of 2004, researchers at LANL grew a world-record-length, four-centimeter-long, single-wall carbon nanotube.
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