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"While New Yorkers eagerly await Cornell University's upcoming\u00A0tech campus\u00A0on Roosevelt Island, NYU is doing its part in expanding the city's tech footprint.\r\n\r\nAccording to reports from The Wall Street Journal, NYU's\u00A0Polytechnic Institute has announced plans to launch &amp;quot;a research center for wireless technologies in a further bid to bolster a technology hub in downtown Brooklyn.&amp;quot; The new research center, created through a partnership with Texas-based National Instruments Corp., will open this winter inside Brooklyn's own &amp;quot;Tech Triangle&amp;quot; -- the startup-heavy area formed by\u00A0Downtown Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Navy Yard and DUMBO.\r\n\r\nAlexandria Sica, the executive director at the Dumbo Improvement District, says this initiative will &amp;quot;spark a whole new field of entrepreneurs&amp;quot; in the area. The research center's founder and director,\u00A0Theodore Rappaport, believes that NYU is ready for work in this field to expand rapidly:\r\nNYU Poly has always had some good researchers in wireless. What we're doing now is ramping it to critical mass and creating a new research environment.\r\nMore than anything else, moves like this one have the potential to grow New York's talent pool -- one of the city's main barriers\u00A0in competing with other tech hubs like Silicon Valley.\r\n\r\nBeyond schools, the city itself has also recently played an important role in helping NY's tech scene expand, with initiatives like the\u00A0BigApps competition,\u00A0an ambitious open data policy,\u00A0the move to bring\u00A0WiFi and cellular reception\u00A0into subway stations, the city\u2019s first green hackathon\u00A0Reinvent Green, and the\u00A0Made in NY Digital Map, which helps Tech Startups discover\u00A0talent.\r\n\r\nFeatured Image:\u00A0Ludovic Bertron"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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