Third Stop on Innovation Tour for Ohio Jobs Set for Today
by Jeff on 11.16.2009
Jennifer's Innovation Tour for Ohio Jobs continues today as the candidate visits reXorce Thermionics, Inc. and Green Energy Techonologies LLC in Akron this afternoon.
The Innovation Tour is designed to highlight and promote Ohio's tradition of achieving job growth and prosperity through innovation. People all around Ohio recognize that the real hope for our struggling economy lies not with huge multi-national corporations and Wall Street behemoths focused primarily on protecting their own, but with new enterprises right here at home that are fueled by the creativity, ambition, and hard work of Ohio's visionary entrepreneurs. "There are many great examples of fast-growing enterprises creating new jobs all across the state, and I am thrilled to be able to bring attention and encouragement to them through this initiative," Jennifer recently said about this initiative. "We're going to celebrate the next generation of American innovation right here in Ohio."
The first two stops on the Innovation Tour were at two exciting and rapidly-growing companies in high-tech medical fields, Meridian Biosciences, Inc. in Hamilton County on October 14th and Arteriocyte Medical Systems in Cuyahoga County on October 22nd. Meridian Bioscience announced last Thursday that its fourth quarter profit rose 16 percent due to strong sales of its rapid flu test, marketed as a potential detector of swine flu.
The first enterprise scheduled for today's event, rexorce Thermionics, Inc., is a privately held company with a mission of pursuing "profit with a purpose" by providing innovative solutions to energy challenges, including development of a proprietary heat engine that recovers thermal energy from waste heat and other sources. The second featured firm is Green Energy Technologies LLC, a privately held company founded in 2006. Green Energy Technologies is developing a cost-effective urban wind turbine system called the Windcube, which captures and amplifies natural wind speed to produce more power than ordinary wind turbines.
Read more about the Innovation Tour and submit nominations of businesses or projects to be included by clicking here.