Universities to form network targeting 2,500 jobs, $300M in research

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A measure proposed in the Ohio state budget would earmark millions in funding to help Ohio’s colleges win hundreds of millions in federal research and create thousands of new jobs.

Ohio’s budget, which is working its way through the Statehouse, proposes $10 million over two years earmarked to Applied Research Corp. at Wright State University to set up what is being termed the “Ohio Federal Research Network,” a collaboration between the state’s research universities, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, NASA Glenn Research Center, and the private sector to collaborate.

Read the article from the Dayton Business Journal.