Last month, Ohio Lt. Governor Lee Fisher announced the Ohio Hubs of Innovation and Opportunity program, which could create a targeted investment zone around the
University of Cincinnati.
According to the Business Courier, the hubs will use proximity and shared focus on industry clusters to maximize the impact of new ideas in such fields as bioscience, aerospace and aviation, environmental technologies, and distribution and logistics.
Universities, hospitals, research and development centers and community colleges would be the natural knowledge centers around which the innovation hubs would be built, as would
Ohio's Edison Centers such as Bond Hill's TechSolve.
At least a dozen zones are planned, with the first to be indentified by the end of 2009.
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