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Since 1998, the state of New York has been offering grants to businesses as part of the Empire State Development Corp.'s Manufacturing Assistance Program (MAP). Through this program, it provides grants to encourage manufacturers to invest in projects that will significantly increase the productivity and competitiveness of their operations. Grants ......

SYRACUSE - Hunter & Hilsberg Corp., an upscale, import-export, mail-order, and online catalog company, is looking to expand its product line to include more New York cheeses.

Governor calls for bill designed to encourage petroleum marketers to explore fuel alternatives.

SYRACUSE-Dutch government-farming policies could prompt an influx of the European nation's dairy farmers to New York State. Representatives of the New York AgriDevelopment Corp. (NYAC), an affiliate of the Metropolitan Development Association (MDA), have met with farming groups in Holland in order to explore the possibility of Dutch farmers relocating ......

ALBANY, N.Y. - Golub Corp. president and c.e.o. Neil Golub, who leads the Price Chopper supermarket chain, is one of several retailers who are spearheading a $73,000 campaign to modify New York's liquor stores and distributors on the right to sell wine, reports local business publication The Business Review.

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Three Central. New York power plants are among the first five chosen as part of New York's Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) program. The program is an effort to increase the amount of energy New York generates from renewable sources. The overall goal is to increase the portion of green power ......

If you´ve got nanotechnology on your mind, NY wants you. The state, area associations and investors have been plugging away for the last four to five years to make the Albany area a center for nanotechnology companies and they´ve made some admirable headway. Earlier this year New York beat out ......

(Third posting in a series on venture investing in nanotechnology.) In early 2002 New York-based venture capital firm Harris & Harris Group announced it would concentrate its investments solely on "tiny tech," including nanotechnology, microsystems and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. This was a brave move as tiny tech companies ......