President Biden on Monday announced 31 new regional tech hubs across the United States to focus on growing industries including semiconductors, clean energy, critical minerals, and artificial intelligence.
The Regional Innovation and Technology Hubs, also known as Tech Hubs, are designed through the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration.
They aim to grow industries that are “critical to economic growth, national security, and job creation, and will help communities across the country become centers of innovation critical to American competitiveness,” according to the White House.
Biden is set to announce the tech hubs designated in 32 states and Puerto Rico later on Monday alongside Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
The funding for the grants to designate the tech hubs comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, which the president signed into law last year.
The hubs include Heartland BioWorks in Indiana, which aims to develop central Indiana into a global leader in biotechnology and biomanufacturing, Baltimore Tech Hub in Maryland, which aims to develop innovative predictive healthcare technologies by applying artificial intelligence to biotechnologies, and the Gulf Louisiana Offshore Wind Propeller in Louisiana, which aims to transition Louisiana’s energy economy from its legacy of oil and gas to offshore wind and renewable energy.
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