| Vistais
based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Vista
currently uses the following existing facilities:
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Vista Offices and Computing Center, Santa Fe, NM
- Lieber
laboratory, Harvard University through sponsored research agreement
- UNM
Medical School neurological facilities
- Manufacturing
(and marketing) facilities provided through strategic relationships
with ICX Mesosystems and Tokyo Electron
These facilities
allow Vista to proceed aggressively and immediately upon funding. In the
future, Vista's nanowire and wet-lab facilities will be located in Cambridge
MA and Santa Fe, NM (MA and NM rank # 1 and 3, respectively, as locations
for building nanotechnology start-ups.)
| “New
Mexico ranks ahead of every state except California and Massachusetts
in a business magazine's top-10 list of centers of nanotechnology
and microsystems research, development and commercialization.”
(SmallTimes 2006) |
| “In
order, the top 10 states ranked by Lux Research are Massachusetts,
California, Colorado, Virginia, New Mexico, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Maryland and, in a tie, Illinois and New York.” (Lux Research
2004) |
| "With
its heavy environmental regulations and the cost to do business, New
York just bleeds ! people," Modzelewski said. For startup companies,
operating costs and permit processes "are a heck of a lot better
in places like New Mexico.“ (SmallTimes, 2007) |
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