Imagine you are a local technology startup looking to manufacture a tiny air quality sensor that can be incorporated into an iPhone to dramatically improve public health. This is a potential billion-dollar market, but you need access to specialized and expensive semiconductor testing and evaluation labs to scale up the technology.
Large semiconductor manufacturers aren’t located in Maryland, so where do you go? California’s Silicon Valley? New York and its semiconductor cluster in Albany?
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