Technogenesis^® how to attract and keep high-tech businesses

What's the best way to attract and keep new high-tech businesses? That's the topic of conversation this Sunday on Technogenesis^®, a new TV program produced by Stevens Institute of Technology, in cooperation with cn8, the Comcast Network. Featured guests include Thacher Longstreth, Philadelphia City Councilman at Large, and Rhea Weinberg Brekke, Executive Director of the New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technology.

Sunday's Technogenesis program, "Nurturing High-Tech Business," airs at 7:30 p.m. on cn8, the Comcast Network, Dec. 10, Dec. 24, Jan. 7 and Jan. 21. Check local cable listings for cn8 in your area.

A five-term City Councilman-at-Large for Philadelphia, Thacher Longstreth is one of Philadelphia's strongest supporters of prudent business growth. He founded the PENJERDEL Council, a longstanding organization devoted to a competitive economy and high quality of life in the Philadelphia area. He also served as the council's President and CEO from 1972-88. Twice a mayoral candidate in Philadelphia, he also has served on many boards with interests in promoting life and business in his home city.

As the Executive Director of the New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technology (NJCAT), Rhea Weinberg Brekke leads a public-private partnership mandated by the State of New Jersey to grow the environmental and energy industry through a commitment to the business application of sound science and technology. NJCAT is a strategic partnership between technology developers, the business and industry users, and government regulators.

Co-produced by Stevens and Comcast, the half-hour Technogenesis program features government, research and industry leaders discussing some of the most challenging real-world issues facing science and technology today.

Hosted by Stevens President Harold J. Raveche and veteran TV journalist Steve Taylor, each program includes two or more special guests from the areas of science, technology, government, education, business or industry.

The Comcast Network is one of the nation's largest regional cable networks reaching close to 4 million households in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University TM , lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research.  The University's students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management.

Based in Hoboken, N.J. and with a location in Washington, D.C., Stevens offers baccalaureate, master’s, certificates and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences and management, in addition to baccalaureate degrees in business and liberal arts.  Stevens has been recognized by both the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Excellence in the areas of systems engineering and port security research. The University has a total enrollment of more than 2,200 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with almost 450 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America as well as strategic partnerships with industry leaders, governments and other universities around the world.  Additional information may be obtained at www.stevens.edu and www.stevens.edu/press.