October 19, 2007

Founder of a Purdue Technology Center-based company named Society of Innovators fellow

Nesch was one of six fellows and 23 new members inducted into the society during the Third Annual Society of Innovators awards ceremony on Thursday (Oct. 18) in Gary, Ind. The Society of Innovators recognizes inventors whose innovations benefit the Northwest Indiana region. The organization represents Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Jasper, Pulaski, Newton and Starke counties.

Individuals are chosen by the society research team at the Gerald I. Lamkin Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana Northwest in Gary, Ind. Recipients are selected based on a number of criteria, including visionary leadership, creating a new or different way that challenges the status quo, being a collaborative team player, and having a willingness to take risks.

Nesch, who is an associate research professor of physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, founded Nesch LLC in 2000. He has developed an advanced X-ray technology, called diffraction enhanced imaging, capable of detecting features difficult to image or invisible to normal X-ray technology.

The Purdue Technology Center of Northwest Indiana is one of four centers around the state organized and operated through the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Ind. Other centers are the Purdue Technology Center in West Lafayette, Purdue Technology Center at Ameriplex Indianapolis and the Purdue Technology Center of Southeast Indiana.

The 651-acre Purdue Research Park has the largest university-affiliated business incubation complex in the country. The park is home to more than 140 companies. About 90 of these firms are technology-related and another 57 are incubator businesses. The park was ranked No. 1 in 2004 for university-affiliated research parks and received the 2005 Outstanding Commercialization Award, both from the Association of University Research Parks. The park's companies also have received numerous recognitions including a 2006 MIRA Award: Innovation of the Year for Purdue Research Park/Quadraspec Inc. and a 2005 CoreNet Global Innovators Award finalist.

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Purdue Research Park contact: Cynthia Sequin, (765) 494-4192, casequin@prf.org