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One of downtown Akron’s newest businesses is on one of the city’s oldest building sites.  On Wednesday, Akron Polymer Systems, ..., celebrated the opening of its new downtown headquarters/laboratory...

One of the most daunting challenges facing companies – especially startups – is access to capital. 

Ohio's growing fuel cell and advanced energy industries received a $20 million boost from the state this week. Companies and universities in Summit, Stark, Portage and Medina counties — some on the verge of commercializing their projects...

New headquarters, laboratory on Summit Street taking shape with doors to open on $1.6 million building in September.

NorTech, a regional nonprofit technology-based economic development organization, announced today the completion of a shared vision and action plan to accelerate the growth of Northeast Ohio's emerging flexible electronics industry.

Trying to chip away at his challenger's claims that his administration has been bad for Ohio businesses, Gov. Ted Strickland visited two small firms in northern Ohio Wednesday that are growing in advanced energy fields.

Frank Harris, a professor emeritus of polymer science at the University of Akron, knows what it's like to be the bona fide poster child for the growing high-tech industry in Ohio. And he's OK with that. He co-founded Akron Polymer Systems in 2005... » READ MORE

The Ohio Third Frontier Commission on Wednesday awarded $4.3 million in grants to five Northeast Ohio technology companies, while also releasing updated statistics on the performance of the Ohio Third Frontier Project.

Two Cincinnati-area companies, L-3 Communications Nova Engineering and Maverick Corp., will receive Ohio Third Frontier grants for high-tech projects.
The grants are part of more than $10 million in awards announced Wednesday by the Ohio Third F
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Ohio Leads the Way for Start-Up Business Success in the Polymer Industry: State's strong background in polymers and advanced materials supports new business growth

If Akron Polymer Systems is half as successful as its founders were before they started the company, then watch out. The developer of specialty polymers is embarking on a $3.4 million expansion in an effort to develop and make more of its own polymers
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On a day when Ohio announced its unemployment rate climbed to 10.5 percent, Gov. Ted Strickland and others gathered in Akron to celebrate a tiny high-tech company's plans to create jobs.  The hope Friday morning was that small startup company... » READ MORE

Akron Polymer Systems Inc. was the recipient of two state economic initiatives, the
Ohio Department of Development said Monday.
The department said the company was awarded $1.2 million from the state's Research
and Development Inve
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Akron's biomedical corridor is getting a new tenant: a small, highly specialized polymer company with strong ties to the University of Akron.
Akron Polymer Systems will break ground in September or October on a new building and renovate an exist
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Akron, Ohio, March 19, 2009 - A thin polymer film developed at The University of Akron is serving as an economic stimulus at a time when corporate closings and escalating unemployment dominate conversations and headlines. The technology, a transparent,
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A North American consortium has awarded Akron Polymer Systems a $250,000 contract to develop a flexible and transparent liquid crystal display that can withstand high-processing temperatures.
Today, organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) used in t
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Ohio's growing fuel cell and advanced energy industries received a $20 million boost from the state this week.

Companies and universities in Summit, Stark, Portage and Medina counties — some on the verge of commercializing their pr
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COLUMBUS- Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher, Chair of the Ohio Third Frontier Commission,
today announced that the Commission awarded more than $12 million in grants to 17 entities to accelerate the development and growth of the advanced energy ind
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