Stanford University now knows it has formidable competition for establishing a New York City-supported science and technology innovation hub, with Tuesday's startling announcement that top rivals -- Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology -- have joined forces.
Cornell, the Ithaca, N.Y.-based Ivy League powerhouse, already has deep connections to New York with a network of 50,000 alumni and a New York City-based medical school.
Technion-Israel, the driving force behind Israel's technology economy, is a world leader in computer science, engineering and "technology transfer," where academic discoveries get commercialized.
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