Incubator Center Change Creates Buzz Around Campus
I guess this is what it looked like when there were still trees in front of it!
It’s pretty rare that the average RPI student ventures over to the J-Building. To be honest, for a while I thought it was a hospital because of the white border around the door and red sign that says “Incubator Center.” Being an ignorant freshman, I saw that and though it must be some sort of laboratory. Now I’ll have even less reason to go in there. RPI announced that is is changing the mdoel for the Incubator, and removing the current businesses.
According to the Times Union article, Laban Coblentz was quoted as saying:
The question is how coordinated are all of these operations at Rensselaer that have to do with business start-ups. Our feeling was that we could do better.
The Rensselaer Polytechnic mentioned that Belwo and Intellidemia will both be moving to a location downtown so that they can remain close to the Institute and their student interns. That brings up an interesting positive benefit to Troy: perhaps some of the empty building space downtown will finally be utilized for productive purposes.
The TU Article quotes businesspeople who are calling the closure a “travesty,” but we’re going to reserve judgment. Mr. Coblentz is probably right to say that the model needs to be revamped if it hasn’t been changed since 1980.
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