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Great minds may not always think alike, but they seem to share a taste in real estate.

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“What can I do to stay competitive? Where can I go to get an edge?”

These are the classic questions business people ask themselves daily, if not hourly.

Well the game has changed. All indicators are pointing to imaginative thinking and the all-important knowledge worker as being the keys to business success in the 90’s and beyond.

Where do you find these people?

In New York State they come to you.

Half a million highly trained New Yorkers work in high-tech industries right now. More than a quarter of a million scientists and engineers work here including 19% of the nation’s PhDs. And our manufacturing workers are more than smart. They’re unusually productive—a full 19% more productive than the national average.

New York State is home to more institutions of higher education than any state in the U.S. and produces more advanced degrees than any other state. It’s no surprise that 13% of Nobel Laureates named in the sciences since 1945 live here.

And these people aren’t keeping their thoughts to themselves. They’re working in labs and teaching in universities. They’re advising companies. They’re developing thousands of technologies which are being exported globally right now—technologies invented in New York.

More importantly, New York State intends to keep it that way with its unique statewide system of Centers for Advanced Technology (CATs).

These 13 CATs are university-based research and development centers sprinkled throughout the state concentrating on such commercially relevant areas as microelectronics, advanced computing, optics and imaging, robotics and automation, telecommunications, biotechnology, and software development.

And while the areas of research at each CAT may be different, there mission statements read the same: We develop leading-edge technologies that produce results on the factory floor.

If you have a company in New York, some pretty sharp men and women are working on your future right now.

To find out more about the CATs or any of our dozens of business development programs, call 1-588-633-5000. Or write the Business Alliance for a New New York, One Commerce Plaza, Albany, New York 12243 If you don’t have a site in New York, call or write to find out how we can make expanding or relocating easier for you.

And don’t worry; you don’t have to be a Nobel Laureate to set up shop here.

But it doesn’t hurt.

New York. A State of Minds. IQNY