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Jay Larsen, president of the Idaho Technology Council, looks to Utah for an example of how the public and private sectors can partner for strong research outcomes. He said R&D at the University of Utah last year spawned 20 new ...

When Harold Blackman, director of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies, thinks about the future direction of research, he thinks of a nighttime satellite photograph of earth. The deep blue of the planet is shot through with tiny pinpoints of ...

Idaho research and technology leaders agree that brick and mortar facilities are valuable to driving innovation, but if the equipment and minds that reside within them don’t have a clear focus, they can become “expensive boondoggles,” according to Jack McIver, ...

When Boise State University President Bob Kustra recently made his case for a new research park, he said expanding and sharing “ideas, patents and concepts” is essential to the growth not only of Boise State, but the state as a ...

Jeremy Aevermann was running on very little sleep in the weeks leading up to the Feb. 9 opening of his new restaurant, Solid, located on Broad Street in Boise’s BoDo district. Occupying an airy, 7,500-square-foot space, which most recently housed ...

A proposed amendment to the state constitution would free airports and other political subdivisions to go into long-term debt without putting the measure before voters, as is required under a 2006 State Supreme Court ruling. The amendment, proposed by Rep. ...

The federal money train left the station on Feb. 17, but Idaho wasn’t on board. Despite over $200 million in requests, the Gem State was among only nine states to see their wish lists completely shut out under the $1.5 ...

Dustin Shindo, co-founder and CEO of Hoku Scientific, will step down from the company he’s helmed since 2001, even as it continues to struggle with financing for a planned $390 million polysilicon production facility in Pocatello. Effective April 1, Hoku ...

In the epigraph to Ernest Hemingway’s famous novel The Sun Also Rises, the author included this six-word quotation from Gertrude Stein: “You are all a lost generation.” Stein, a powerful writer and social critic, was referring to the generation that ...

Analysts cheered but investors demurred following Micron Technology‘s announcement on Feb. 9 that it would acquire Swiss memory chip maker Numonyx Holdings BV. News of the deal, an all-stock transaction valued at about $1.27 billion, sent Micron share values down ...