Office of the Vice Provost for Research Cornell’s Research Serves the Region and Beyond Small Business Development Matthew Fondeur/CU Modern academic researchers have a unique “ opportunity to facilitate the transfer of exciting research ideas to commercial viability. Beyond facilitating links between academics and private enterprise, the research commercialization process also creates novel employment opportunities in new markets and expands awareness of such opportunities to industry. Today’s start-up companies bring unique opportunities to many people in many walks of life. Jack Henion CEO/President, ” Advion BioSciences, Inc. Office of the Vice Provost for Research Cornell’s Research Serves the Region and Beyond Small Business Development Published by Senior Vice Provost for Research Office of the Robert C. Richardson Vice Provost for Research Vice Provost for Life Sciences Cornell University Stephen Kresovich 222 Day Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-2801 Vice Provost for Physical Sciences and Engineering E-Mail Joseph A. Burns [email protected] Vice Provost for Website Research Administration www.research.cornell.edu/VPR/ Charles R. Fay Editor Ernestina Snead Copyeditor Sheryl A. Englund Editorial Assistant Shannon Marshall June 2006 Design Cornell University is an equal-opportunity, Zanzinato affirmative-action educator and employer. Contents 6 The Research Connection 42 Evaporated Metal Films, Inc. (EMF) 9 Bringing Cornell Discoveries and Innovations 43 Fingerlakes Aquaculture, Inc. to Market: 44 Fracture Analysis Consultants, Inc. (FAC) Cornell Center for Technology, Enterprise, 45 Gendyne Therapeutics, Inc. and Commercialization (CCTEC) 46 Gene Network Sciences, Inc. (GNS) 12 Cornell Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) 47 Genex Cooperative, Inc. in Biotechnology 48 GrammaTech, Inc. 14 BR Legal (BRL) 49 H & I Agritech, Inc. 15 Cornell Business and Technology Park (CBTP) 50 Harvester Technology, Inc. (HTI) 51 Hybrid Silica Technologies, Inc. (HST) 17 Companies in Tompkins County 52 HydroMath, LLC 18 Advanced Design Consulting USA, Inc. (ADC) 53 Impact-Echo Instruments, LLC 19 Advanced Plastic and Material Testing, Inc. (APM) 54 INCODEMA, Inc. 20 Advion BioSciences, Inc. 55 Innovative Dynamics, Inc. (IDI) 21 Agave BioSystems 56 Insights International, Inc. 22 Alltech New York, Inc. 57 International Food Network, Inc. (IFN) 23 Animal Ultrasound Services, Inc. (AUS) 58 Ithaca Materials Research & Testing, Inc. (IMR) 24 Applied Pulsed Power, Inc. (APP) 59 KensaGroup, LLC 25 ATC-NY 60 Kionix, Inc. 26 Bigwood Systems, Inc. (BSI) 61 Laminare Technologies, Inc. 27 BinOptics Corporation 62 Life Network Engineering Technologies, Inc. (LifeNET) 28 BIOnexus®, Ltd. 63 Marmotech, Inc. 29 Calient Optical Components 64 Matereality, LLC 30 The CBORD Group, Inc. 65 MCCI 31 CEA Systems 66 Mitegen, LLC 32 Claritas, Inc. 67 Moldflow Corporation 33 Concept Systems, Inc. (CSI) 68 Multiwire Laboratories, Ltd. 34 Conceptual Reality Presentations, Inc. (CRPInc) 69 Northeast Agriculture Technology Corporation (NATC) 35 Cummins Nursery 70 Novomer 36 Data Bound Solutions, Inc. 71 Nuance Communications, Inc. 37 Data Description, Inc. 72 Nutrimed Biotech 38 DatapointLabs, LLC 73 Ongweoweh Corp. 39 Digicomp Research Corporation 74 OptiGen®, LLC 40 DLtech, Inc. 75 Palisade Corporation 41 Environmental Associates, Ltd. 76 PhotoSynthesis Productions, LLC 3 77 Porous Materials, Inc. (PMI) 113 Companies Beyond New York State 78 Prescient Code Solutions 114 Applied Genetics Technology Corporation (AGTC) 79 Primet Precision Materials, Inc. 114 Arginox Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 80 Re-Markable Paint Company, LLC 115 Avera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 81 RP Solutions, Inc. 115 CoAxia, Inc. 82 Rumsey-Loomis 116 EDEN Bioscience Corporation (EDEN) 83 Smith Marketing Services, LLC (SMS) 116 Gemfire Corporation 84 Strategic Marketing Associates, Inc. 117 GenVec, Inc. (GNVC) 85 TerraCycle, Inc. 117 High Connection Density, Inc. (HCD) 86 Tetragenetics, Inc. 118 HµREL Corporation 87 The 5th Flavor 118 Marc Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 88 Transonic Systems, Inc. 119 Metabolon, Inc. 89 Vector Magnetics, LLC 119 Nanonics Imaging, Ltd. 90 Vet-Aire, Inc. 120 Pacific BioSciences 91 Viral Therapeutics, Inc. (VTI) 120 Phytex 92 VMETRO 121 Q Therapeutics, Inc. 121 RADVISION 95 Companies Outside Tompkins County, 122 RF Micro Devices, Inc. (RFMD) Within New York State 122 SightSpeed, Inc. 96 AMEREQ, Inc. 123 Spectrasonics, Inc. 97 Biodiesel Technologies, Inc. (BT) 123 Ultralink, LLC 98 BioWorks, Inc. 99 BZL Biologics, LLC 125 Appendix 100 Con-Cept I, LLC 126 About the Companies 101 DATU, Inc. 127 New Company Listings 102 DMV International 128 Companies that Licensed Cornell Technology 103 Ecovation, Inc. 129 Companies in Partnership with 104 Genencor International, Inc. the Weill Cornell Medical College 105 Innovative Biotechnologies International, Inc. (IBI) 129 Acquired or Relocated Companies 106 Jigalin Cheese Co., Inc. 130 Cornell’s Technology Transfer Pathway 107 NeuwGhent Technology (NGT) 132 Notes 108 Reed’s Seeds 109 Sanford Scientific, Inc. 110 Triad Technologies, Inc. 4 Being close to the Ivy League school of Cornell, “ renowned not only in the U.S. but also around the world, allows us to work with excellent faculty, staff, and students, and the opportunity to use the latest technological equipment. It is a wonderful advantage for our company, an advantage that allows us to continually grow. Alex Deyhim President, Advanced Design Consulting, Inc. ” 5 The Research Connection Cornell’s Research Serves the Region and Beyond: Small Business Development includes companies with the following Cornell connections: › Companies founded by Cornell faculty, staff, › Companies based on specific Cornell students, or alumni with a definitive transfer technologies, but located outside of of university technology or knowledge New York State › Companies based on specific Cornell › Companies that have acquired original technologies small businesses as subsidiaries, where the Cornell technology remains a major › Companies whose proximity to Cornell’s asset of the company intellectual resources is crucial to their formation or to their relocation and retention in the region Among the many benefits of academic research are spin-offs. These small companies have great potential for increasing a region’s wealth: not only its economic resources but also intellectual capital adding further to economic growth. A discovery is made or a technology is invented in a Cornell laboratory. A company is formed to take the research or technology to practical fruition. People are hired to research, develop, manufacture, and market the new product—a product that inevitably benefits society as a whole. But this process of technology transfer also instantly connects the rewards of the research done in the university laboratory to the community. The presence of an academic institution, like Cornell, and its spin-offs turns a community into a center of excellence—a high-tech mecca. Academic spin-offs in the region provide not merely jobs, but new high-tech, high-intellectual job sectors. This culture—fostering intellectual and economic growth—is a magnet for other 6 influences, such as the Cornell graduate who stays in the region to start a company and influences other graduates to stay. There are also the companies that remain in the region or move to the region to be close by Cornell’s world-class research facili- ties—particularly the research centers and high-tech laboratories—great libraries, high-level faculty expertise, and a highly educated workforce. The companies also bring new commercial clients and visitors to the region. Cornell’s Research Serves the Region and Beyond: Small Business Development covers these companies. Located in Tompkins County are nanotechnology and biotechnology firms; high-tech materials testing, food development and testing, and veterinary testing laboratories; software development firms; and many others. Examples of their products include fuel cell technology for portable electronic devices; foodservice and nutrition services software for the world’s education, entertainment, and medical industries; MEMs technology that is applicable in the automotive, biotechnology, and consumer electronics industries; blood flowmeters for medical research and surgical use; specialty chemicals and materials develop- ment covering a wide range of high-tech uses; and food products. A community such as this helps to sustain a solid economic base in the region, and at the same time, advances growth and diversity in the state’s economy. This publication also includes other small companies that take Cornell’s research to practical fruition. These are companies that licensed Cornell technologies but are located beyond the region. It also includes Weill Cornell Medical College’s recent spin-offs. Cornell’s Research Serves the Region and Beyond: Small Business Development illustrates how technology transfer is achieved through small business development. It documents 110 small businesses with ties to Cornell’s extensive academic 7 resources—its people, research, and facilities. It offers many examples of how Cornell’s research serves the local community, as well as state, national, and global communities. With $561 million (FY 2005) in research expenditures and start-up companies translating research and technology into products and services, Cornell’s potential for serving the region through economic development as well as serving the public in new and essential ways is extraordinary. Cornell University thanks each