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Governor Bullock Announces Research and Commercialization Technology Grants for Eight Cutting-Edge Research Projects
Governor Steve Bullock and Montana Department of Commerce Director Meg O’Leary today announced the recent award of $698,091 in grants to eight research projects in Missoula, Billings, Bozeman and Belgrade. The funding is being made available through the Montana Board of Research and Commercialization Technology (MBRCT).
"These state-of-the-art projects will significantly and positively impact Montana’s opportunities for economic growth," said Bullock. "Through investments in innovative research and commercialization, we’re not only supporting cutting-edge projects and jobs today, but we’re also helping to define what Montana’s economy looks like for years to come."
The MBRCT supports economic development by investing in research projects that have a clear path to commercialization. The MBRCT has funded 216 research projects totaling $41 million since 2001.
Full Story: http://governor.mt.gov/Newsroom/ArtMID/28487/ArticleID/1576
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Gallatin high-tech research projects win $500,000 to create products, jobs
Russell Barbour sounded happy Wednesday to have won a $209,000 Montana state grant to start a high-tech company that could speed up detection of deadly skin cancers and wheat diseases.
"That’s great," physicist Barbour said in his native Scottish brogue. "It’s pretty exciting for Bozeman and Montana in general. A great step forward."
Barbour plans to take optics technology invented in Montana State University’s Spectrum Lab and start a new company, Advanced Microcavity Sensors, to create commercial products.
By Gail Schontzler Chronicle Staff Writer
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