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The Miami Heritage Technology Park has been awarded $3.5 million to construct a research center, reports the Hamilton Journal News.

The park is planned for businesses which will collaborate with Miami University on 74 acres of land on Ohio 73 just outside the Oxford city limits.

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The development of two new business parks is expected to bring over 500 jobs to Stark County, according to a news release.

The projects, one based in Louisville and one in Navarre, were each awarded $3.5 million grants from the Ohio Department of Development to prep the sites, connect utilities and build access routes.

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If you're looking for Greater Cincinnati's creative class, hop on over to the ongoing Cincinnati Innovates contest where more than 120 people have submitted a wide variety of innovative concepts for businesses, products and nonprofits, reports Soapbox.

The second annual competition is open to anyone now or originally from the 15-county area of Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana.

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Just northeast of Cincinnati, a sort of wooden Stonehenge is slowly emerging as archaeologists unearth increasing evidence of a 2,000-year-old ceremonial site, reports National Geographic.

Using computer models, a Wright State University-led team has found that Moorehead Circle may have even more in common with the United Kingdom's Stonehenge than thought -- specifically, an apparently intentional astronomical alignment.

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Honda Motor Co.'s Marysville plant has made its 10 millionth vehicle, the first Honda plant outside Japan to reach that milestone, reports the Associated Press.

Honda says the vehicle -- an Accord sedan -- rolled off the assembly line July 20.

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Dayton officials who want to see GE locate a new research facility in the city's recently designated aerospace hub believe it could become a magnet to attract more businesses downtown, reports the Dayton Daily News.

Company officials, aided by the Dayton Development Coalition, are in the middle of a site search, which includes locations in Dayton and Vandalia.

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A giant Green Noise Wall is coming to I-70, east of Columbus, reports Discovery News.

The concrete barrier alternative will be constructed from bags of dirt and seeds, making it a second major vegetation highway wall attempt in the U.S. Officials are hoping this one fares infinitely better than an earlier one in Wisconsin, which ended badly.

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If Hollywood ever remakes "The Graduate," it might want to tweak one of the film's most-famous lines, says the Columbus Dispatch.

"Plastics" might have represented the future for a college student entering the business world in 1967, but not so much these days, the newspaper reports in a piece that focuses on the growth of bio-based polymers.

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There is a little piece of Cleveland technology in the smart phone in your pocket, in the big flat-screen TV on your living room wall and in the high-end laptop you have been coveting, reports The Plain Dealer.

It's a piece of graphite engineered to a high-tech thinness that makes it as flexible as paper without affecting one of its hallmarks -- the uncanny ability to sop up and dissipate heat better than any metal. And it's manufactured by Lakewood-based GrafTech International.

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An Aurora subsidiary of GE Healthcare is teaming with clinicians and researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Ohio State University to find better ways to take magnetic resonance images of children, reports MedCity News.

GEHC Coils Inc. � the former USA Instruments Inc. � will use a $1 million Ohio Third Frontier grant to work with the medical center and Ohio State's Davis Heart and Lung Institute to design, build and validate MRI coils and surgical fixation devices for children.

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Dow Corning and The University of Toledo have signed an agreement to collaborate on photovoltaic solar research and development efforts, reports Solar Industry.

The discussions to help reduce the cost of solar energy to make it a viable and economically competitive energy option globally.

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Gov. Ted Strickland has designated Akron an "Ohio Hub of Innovation and Opportunity" focused on biomaterials, orthopedics and wound healing, a move aimed at attracting more biomaterials companies and investors, reports The Plain Dealer.

The hub will be part of an existing Akron Biomedical Corridor that Mayor Don Plusquellic helped create in 2006.

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Local entrepreneur and Cincinnati nightlife promoter Sean Herron knows a potential business idea when he sees it. His latest is CollabTees.com, a virtual t-shirt shop where musicians can have a high quality t-shirt designed, printed, distributed and sold, reports Soapbox.

The site launched just two weeks ago.

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Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has announced the designation of the Cincinnati Consumer Marketing Hub as an Ohio Hub of Innovation and Opportunity, reports GovMonitor.

The hub will bring together the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, Procter & Gamble, Kroger Company, the University of Cincinnati and Macy's to strengthen and create job opportunities in Ohio's consumer marketing industry.

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