A plan to spur high-tech jobs on New York's Long Island by linking that region's leading research institutes was announced this week in the latest effort by development interests here to create Long Island's own Silicon Valley.
According to reports published in Newsday, New York's U.S. Senator Charles Shumer reportedly brokered a partnership among Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National and Cold Spring Harbor laboratories with the goal to attract more federal grants and private donations than the facilities could get individually. The innovation fund would then be used then be used to help commercialize breakthroughs and create jobs.
"The potential here is breathtaking," Schumer said in a series of interviews with Newsday reporters.
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