Economic Development Partners
Learn about CEIS and its impact on economic growth and university-industry collaboration.
New York State offers resources designed to enable new and existing businesses to become more competitive through the use of innovative technologies. The primary support for CEIS is from NYSTAR (Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation), which emphasizes the importance of working with industry as a way to leverage New York State’s technology strengths to produce new products.
The state also offers innovation development support resources and financial incentives to foster university collaboration, research, and innovation. CEIS is one of 15 Centers for Advanced Technology located at leading research universities around the state. The purpose of the CATs is to support university-industry collaborative research and technology transfer in commercially relevant technologies.
FuzeHub provides New York State manufacturers and technology companies with guided access to an extensive network of industry experts, programs, and assets to solve productivity, commercialization, research and development issues, and other challenges to growth.
FuzeHub’s programs champion the New York State manufacturing and technology community and provide targeted resources to accelerate manufacturing competitiveness and technology commercialization. Fuzehub’s manufacturing specialists work one-on-one with companies to analyze specific needs and opportunities.
FuzeHub is a non-profit organization that serves as the statewide New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership center supported by Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology & Innovation.
NextCorps is a nationally recognized hub for innovation and economic development that has served as a launchpad for startups and emerging technologies since 1987. The non-profit organization is an affiliate of the University of Rochester that supports tech startups and existing manufacturers in building their businesses through a variety of internationally and nationally recognized programs.
In addition to its sector-specific startup accelerator programs in optics/photonics/imaging/lasers, and B2B SaaS, NextCorps also operates a state-of-the-art tech incubator in Rochester as well as the region’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership center.
New York Photonics is the world’s leading industry organization for light-based technologies.
The Rochester region leads the nation in the light-based technologies of optics, photonics, imaging, and laser (OPIL), and New York state leads the nation in commercializing intellectual property in OPIL industries.
New York Photonics leverages the region’s technical expertise, research capacity and manufacturing strength to support economic growth. In the last decade, the sector has driven more than $1.1 billion in new capital investment.
The birthplace of Eastman Kodak Co., Xerox Corp., and Bausch + Lomb continues to evolve, as do the talented teams that fueled these companies. They are driving diverse and strategic innovation through the founding of more than 150 OPIL companies that employ close to 20,000, and that number stands to grow significantly in the coming years.
Greater Rochester Enterprise (GRE) is the leading regional economic development organization committed to attracting new capital investments and creating regional wealth and new jobs throughout the Greater Rochester region.
The GRE team of economic development professionals connects people and resources to expand companies in the nine-county region. CEIS works with GRE to provide access to faculty at URochester and RIT. In turn, CEIS also identifies companies from outside the region that may be good candidates for relocation or expansion.
The Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce serves the nine-county Rochester region, which includes Monroe, Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming and Yates counties.
The Chamber provides information, advocacy, human resource services, and networking to help employers grow — connecting leaders and changemakers to solve problems, shape policy, and open doors for today’s workforce and tomorrow’s economy.
Eastman Business Park, formerly known as Kodak Park, is a 1,.200-acre industrial campus that provides a wide range of facilities and services for tenant companies.
The park houses businesses engaged in manufacturing and distribution and offers offices and laboratory spaces. There are CEIS partner companies based at the park.