Johns Hopkins APL, Howard County to partner on new tech accelerator

Sarah Gantz 

Reporter- Baltimore Business Journal

Howard County is teaming up with Johns Hopkins University to launch a new accelerator geared toward commercial technology.

The new accelerator, called the Accelerator for the Commercialization of Technology, will help bring to market technology developed at the massive Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel. Howard County Executive Ken Ulman plans to formally announce the new partnership between the laboratory and the Howard County Economic Development Authority at an event Thursday.

“This is an historic agreement,” Ulman said in a statement. “So much innovative work takes place at the Applied Physics Lab, and we have now figured out how to turn that work into jobs, products and businesses.”

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