{"244241":{"#nid":"244241","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Optics Industry Panel Present Need for National Photonics Initiative","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis month, more than 200 business and technology leaders met to learn about the driving forces behind the optics industry\u2019s critical role in the U.S. economy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the annual meeting for the Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster (RRPC), optics industry experts and government officials advocated for a National Photonics Initiative (NPI), a collaboration among industry, academia and government to drive investment in fields critical to U.S. competitiveness and national security.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPanelist and professor Jennifer Clark, of Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Public Policy, stated that the regions primed to compete and thrive offer deep, specialized labor markets; horizontally and vertically networked institutional intermediaries focused on innovation; and established, firm networks and strategies for manufacturing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvances in optics, many of which have been created in Rochester, are instrumental in enabling key technologies contributing to U.S. economic upturn: from consumer electronics like the iPad to medical device innovations like the SmartPill and mobile diagnostics, to military advances like drones.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2013-10-10 13:13:34","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:43","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"peptide chains","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/RRPC-Meeting-2013-NPI\/092013\/prweb11138468.htm","dateline":{"date":"2013-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1164","name":"optics and photonics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}