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Part 7: Unrealized Potential: High Technology In Hampton Roads, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University
Part 7: Unrealized Potential: High Technology In Hampton Roads, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University
State of the Region Reports: Hampton Roads
On the face of it, Hampton Roads ought to be a technological powerhouse because of the high-level federal research facilities and defense installations located in the area, plus a higher education community of considerable size. Yet, while we can claim the second-greatest technological development of any region in the Commonwealth, we are a very distant second to Northern Virginia and have never realized our potential. Future prosperity in technology is tied to developing the modeling and simulation industry that has sprouted primarily in Suffolk, stimulating Eastern Virginia Medical School’s potential in conjunction with Old Dominion University and vastly increasing support …