Emerging Hardtech Field Offers Indiana Opportunities
Inside INdiana Business highlights Indiana's hardtech opportunity through the Hardtech Indiana coalition, supporting entrepreneurs like Ixana who need specialized funding, prototyping and manufacturing resources beyond typical software startups.
Inside INdiana Business explores Indiana's hardtech opportunity through the Hardtech Indiana coalition uniting IEDC, Elevate Ventures, TechPoint and industry groups, supporting entrepreneurs who need funding, prototyping and manufacturing beyond typical software startups.
Ixana hardtech leadership
Purdue professor Shreyas Sen's Ixana, based in West Lafayette, develops Wi-R wireless technology using body conductivity as a personal aura for secure, low-energy data transmission, offering an alternative to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth that enables wearable computing while addressing battery limitations.
Hardtech corridor development
Purdue President Mung Chiang envisions an I-65 corridor from West Lafayette to Indianapolis, including the LEAP Lebanon 11,000-acre district anchored by Eli Lilly's 3.7 billion dollar campus, with CHIPS Act momentum also supporting SkyWater's planned 1.8 billion dollar semiconductor facility in West Lafayette.
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