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By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2018, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. ENID — The next generation in farm implements wowed an audience of Oklahoma agriculture and economic development leaders at Enid’s recent Future of Food Forum. It looked nothing like a new combine or a tractor. It was a drone, a pilotless, remote control aircraft oftenRead more

By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2018, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. TULSA — Take 45 bioscience research scientists, put them in a room together with no real agenda and you get what exactly? The Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) did exactly that this week with its first Bioscience Networking Luncheon atRead more

By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Company  OWASSO — Buddy Stefanoff touched the screen on his cellphone, and a bright LED light instantly shone in a streetlight fixture atop a stand across the room. Stefanoff was demonstrating technology that his firm, Crossroads LED, uses that allows road crews to remotely switch onRead more

TokenEx, a company founded in 2010, had won the 2016 Metro 50 Award. TokenEx was recognized as the Oklahoma City metro area’s No. 1 ranked company with three-year revenue growth of 578 percent. While it may have flown under the radar locally, TokenEx is having a major impact in the data protection industry.

A new fuel that might power the future of the world’s general aviation industry filled a small jar in a hangar at Ada Municipal Airport, looking as if it could have been a mug of amber ale. The new fuel was developed solely by Ada’s GAMI and is called G100UL for GAMI’s 100 Motor Octane Unleaded. It is awaiting certification by the Federal Aviation Administration and is lead-free.

A promising career as a securities lawyer awaited Doug Branch when he graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1982. Oklahoma was the heart of a booming energy economy with lots of oil and gas firms that needed legal work as they raised capital and dealt with regulators.

Farrow is founder and CEO of a company called Compression Solutions Inc. that manufactures the Triple Play Pro and Triple Play VT devices for use by recovering surgical patients across the country. The devices also provide intermittent compression and cold therapy to prevent the development of blood clots in the lower leg.

Two decades after Oklahoma City embraced a groundbreaking initiative that remade the city through a series of pay-as-you-go projects, another initiative is emerging with implications for economic development. In October, the Brookings Institution announced that Oklahoma City is one of two pilot cities included in a study about developing an innovation district in an area of the city heavily focused on biotechnology research.

An Emerging Tech Center: Oklahoma City For Entrepreneurs, Oklahoma City is, well, OK By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2016 | Innovation America Actually, it’s way better than OK, having developed into an impressive technology center from what was once not much. Oklahoma City was cloaked in a depressing vibe in the early 1990s. Downtown retailRead more

Innovations: Ardmore firm puts new light on sensor manufacturing process By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Company ARDMORE — One morning about five years ago I walked onto the laboratory floor at Ardmore’s Amethyst Research Inc. and stopped in my tracks. Directly in front of me was a giant ion beam accelerator. IRead more

As a kid, nothing caught my attention like a “steamroller” smoothing down new road construction on the highway as we passed by. You’ve seen them a thousand times, a machine with big steel drums on each end that compacts new roadway at a blistering speed of 2 mph, or so. Today, they are known as road compactors because steam is so 19th century.

I once saw a documentary on the making of the iconic Gateway Arch in St. Louis. It was completed in 1965 with opposite sides going up simultaneously until they met 630 feet above the ground. Engineers had to ensure that when each side reached the other it was exactly where it needed to be to connect. There was no margin for error.

Farjo is chief operating officer of both EyeCRO and Charlesson, which are involved in research to advance treatments for eye disease such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and ocular inflammation.

The Noble Foundation annually has a presence among the group of about 80 people who showcase Oklahoma to the world through the OKBio booth on the floor of the BIO show

Heather Fahlenkamp is an associate professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. She recently was honored with the 2015 Researcher of the Year award from the Oklahoma Bioscience Association.

The 2015 BioSummit and BioScience Awards dinner is April 8 and the Embassy Suites hotel on the Oklahoma Health Center campus.

Dr. Robert Welliver is part of an OU team working to develop a vaccine for RSV — respiratory syncytial virus — the bane of infants and their parents worldwide.

Through BioShare, OBI will supply researchers with stem cells and other blood products, said Charles Mooney, the blood bank’s vice president of New Ventures & Quality Management.

As he pursued a master’s degree in Biochemistry in his native India, Kumar Sripathirathan was drawn to the library at the American consulate in the city of Chennai along India’s southeast coast.

For technology developed at the University of Oklahoma, the first stop on the road to market is the Office of Technology Development.