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Ignition Park is a technology park under development in South Bend, Indiana, USA.

It represents the municipal government's response to a decision in 2008 by the Semiconductor Research Corporation's Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI) to locate the fourth of its national research centers, known as the Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND), at the University of Notre Dame.^[1]

Ignition Park is one of the two locations that make up Indiana's first two-site State-Certified Technology Park in South Bend.^[2]

The other is Innovation Park at Notre Dame, located on 12 acres on the city's northeast side adjacent to the Notre Dame campus. The first 54,000-square-feet building at Innovation Park is scheduled for completion in fall 2009. Innovation Park at Notre Dame will facilitate commercialization of many forms of research, by convening innovators throughout the entire Notre Dame community and beyond.^[3] Companies formed at Innovation Park may choose to expand their operations at Ignition Park, and by doing so, they'll continue to receive support services and other benefits from being part of the same state-certified technology park.^[4]

Ignition Park sits on the grounds of the former Studebaker Corp..^[3]

Ignition Park will concentrate on high-potential technologies and ventures, as well as the commercialization of nanotechnology concepts inspired by MIND.^[5]

[edit] References

1. ^ “South Bend’s legacy of innovation sparks Ignition Park,” Small Times, January 6, 2009. retrieved 2009-06-12.
2. ^ Nanotech site name announced,” WSBT, January 5, 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
3. ^ ^{a b} Gwaltney, Candace. “Inventive Growth – South Bend Developing a High-tech Future,” BizVoice, March/April 2009, pp. 56-58. Retrieved on 2009-06-12.
4. ^ "South Bend's legacy of innovation sparks Ignition Park," Small Times, Jan. 6, 2009. Retrieved on 2009-06-12.
5. ^ "South Bend's legacy of innovation sparks Ignition Park," Small Times, Jan. 6, 2009. Retrieved on 2009-06-12.

[edit] External links

• Ignition Park
• City of South Bend
• Innovation Park at Notre Dame
• Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND)
• Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI)
• Semiconductor Research Corporation
• University of Notre Dame