News of NY’s new Roosevelt Island Tech Campus has spread across the globe, with BBC News reporting on not only the campus, but NY’s entire economic-boost-through-technology initiative. The building of CornellNYC Tech and NYU’s future Brooklyn tech campus are expected to create 8,000 permanent jobs – and a further 600 new companies and 30,000 jobs in associated spin-offs and support services.
Seth Pinsky, president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation told BBC News, ”We want this campus to be a model for how higher education, especially in science and engineering, works in the 21st Century.” And so far the idea is working, as Mayor Bloomberg’s concept of a competition for a startup university has inspired imitators – with the UK’s Universities Minister David Willetts inviting proposals for a privately funded science-research center.
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