New Hampshire's Burgeoning Tech Sector

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There are three regions in New Hampshire where communities are forming around technology and innovation. The city of Manchester has a burgeoning tech community growing up around the DNS company Dyn, Inc. The University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth College are also seeing start ups and other technology companies grow in their midst on the New Hampshire Seacoast, and in the Upper Valley.

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July 12, 2012

Getting By, Getting Ahead: More On The Upper Valley’s Strengths–And Challenges–In The Start-Up Economy

This week for our series “Getting By, Getting Ahead,” which looks at the personal stories behind New Hampshire’s economy, we’ve been focusing on start-ups in the Upper Valley. Bioengineering entrepreneur Tillman Gerngross was the subject of our latest profile. Recently, we discussed the regional start-up scene on All Things Considered.

July 10, 2012

Getting By, Getting Ahead: Start-Up Entrepreneur Brings High-Tech Talent To Rural N.H.

As part of our weekly “Getting By, Getting Ahead” series, StateImpact is traveling across New Hampshire, gathering personal stories from the people behind the economy. In our third installment, we visit a biotech start-up in the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee region. _____ Deep inside a nondescript business park in Lebanon, a blocky, industrial building is getting a […]

July 9, 2012

Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Snapshot: Burgeoning Start-Up Scene Wrestles With Recruitment Challenge

Tomorrow morning on NHPR, we’ll hear from Tillman Gerngross, a bioengineering entrepreneur in the Upper Valley. Tillman’s story is Part Three of our series “Getting By, Getting Ahead,” examining how people across New Hampshire’s seven regions are navigating a recovering economy. […]

April 20, 2012

This Week’s Essential StateImpact

Before you prepare to pack up and check out for the weekend, we’ve rounded up the top five posts that caught your collective eye. From obscure urbanization studies to electricity deregulation and women entrepreneurs, our Essential StateImpact posts make for a particularly motley crew this week. Why Urban States Are More Productive Than Rural Ones […]

April 17, 2012

WiValley Battles Topography And Budgets To Connect Monadnocks

Brian Foucher traveled some 300 days a year for business. When the Harrisville, N.H., resident was home, he telecommuted to meetings around the globe, but found his Internet connection so poor his employer became frustrated. With a wife and young family at home, that kind of work life was quickly growing old. Foucher’s initiative to […]

April 4, 2012

Five Reasons Why Angel Investors (Think “Shark Tank”) Matter To The Economy

If you’ve watched “Shark Tank” on ABC (or its British forbear “Dragon’s Den” on BBC in America), you’ve seen, to some extent, angel investors in action. Underneath the high-gloss of ratings-driven reality TV, you can catch a glimpse of this opaque, mysterious investment market. As Colleen Debaise of the Wall Street Journal explains, angel investments […]

March 9, 2012

How Apps Are Keeping Ski Areas Honest

Spring weather is now starting to roll in, but just last week winter had its last hurrah. And when those big snow storms wallop the mountains, ski areas see dollar signs. A pair of Dartmouth economists are researching the tendency of ski areas to exaggerate snowfall reports, especially on weekends, in hopes of luring more skiers […]

February 13, 2012

A Look Inside An Advanced NH Factory

One of the issues we’re focusing on at StateImpact is the manufacturing sector in New Hampshire: What it looks like, its successes, and its challenges. Recently, we tagged along while US Senator Jeanne Shaheen toured a factory in Merrimack. Elbit Systems of America represents the new line of advanced manufacturing taking root in the Granite […]

February 6, 2012

Q&A: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Manufacturing in New Hampshire

What we’ve seen since President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address has been a series of press events at various factories (including a vice presidential visit to Albany Engineered Composites in Rochester) and media stories touching on the state of American Manufacturing. It’s part of the president’s latest jobs initiative that focuses on reviving the manufacturing sector. Given […]

December 19, 2011

“Banking For The 99 Percent…Maybe”

First of all, if you haven’t checked-in with NHPR’s Word of Mouth…you need to. StateImpact listens in frequently. And it just so happens that we found a cool interview host Virginia Prescott did with reporter MacGregor Campbell about the resurrection of peer-to-peer lending in lieu of banks. As the segment intro explains: “Back in the […]

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