Technogenesis^® how to attract and keep high-tech businesses

What's the best way to attract and keep new high-tech businesses? That's the topic of conversation this Sunday on Technogenesis^®, a new TV program produced by Stevens Institute of Technology, in cooperation with cn8, the Comcast Network. Featured guests include Thacher Longstreth, Philadelphia City Councilman at Large, and Rhea Weinberg Brekke, Executive Director of the New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technology.

Sunday's Technogenesis program, "Nurturing High-Tech Business," airs at 7:30 p.m. on cn8, the Comcast Network, Dec. 10, Dec. 24, Jan. 7 and Jan. 21. Check local cable listings for cn8 in your area.

A five-term City Councilman-at-Large for Philadelphia, Thacher Longstreth is one of Philadelphia's strongest supporters of prudent business growth. He founded the PENJERDEL Council, a longstanding organization devoted to a competitive economy and high quality of life in the Philadelphia area. He also served as the council's President and CEO from 1972-88. Twice a mayoral candidate in Philadelphia, he also has served on many boards with interests in promoting life and business in his home city.

As the Executive Director of the New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technology (NJCAT), Rhea Weinberg Brekke leads a public-private partnership mandated by the State of New Jersey to grow the environmental and energy industry through a commitment to the business application of sound science and technology. NJCAT is a strategic partnership between technology developers, the business and industry users, and government regulators.

Co-produced by Stevens and Comcast, the half-hour Technogenesis program features government, research and industry leaders discussing some of the most challenging real-world issues facing science and technology today.

Hosted by Stevens President Harold J. Raveche and veteran TV journalist Steve Taylor, each program includes two or more special guests from the areas of science, technology, government, education, business or industry.

The Comcast Network is one of the nation's largest regional cable networks reaching close to 4 million households in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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