Making the most of New Jersey‟s heritage as a home to innovation and invention will be the key to creating the jobs of the future, and the ongoing goal of a new coalition called Innovation NJ, dedicated to fostering partnerships between businesses and institutions of higher education.
An announcement of the new coalition was made July 15 at AT&T‟s Global Network Operations Center in Bedminster. The event was hosted by Michael Schweder, president of AT&T New Jersey; who was joined by Thomas F. Degnan Jr., chairman of the Research & Development Council of New Jersey and manager of Breakthrough and Leads Generation for ExxonMobil; Judith Sheft, associate vice president for Technology Development at the New Jersey Institute of Technology; Dr. Kathleen W. Scotto, vice president of Research and interim dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; and Maxine Ballen, president and CEO of the NJ Technology Council at the event.
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