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Tech hub partners in Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse team up for $75M funding push
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BUFFALO, NY (The Buffalo News) — When Buffalo teamed up with Rochester and Syracuse to be named one of 31 “tech hubs” around the country by a federal agency, it proved that regional collaboration can pay off.
But that was just the start.
Now, representatives of the three regions are back at it, trying to secure tens of millions of dollars the federal government will award to a select number of those tech hubs.
The Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse regions are already connected in some ways, Joseph Stefko said during a recent discussion hosted by the Buffalo Niagara Partnership. He cited research that about 70,000 individuals live in one of those three regions but commute to work in one of the other two regions
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