Center for Economic Growth

Helping drive demand for materials engineers in the Capital Region has been significant public and private investments in materials and metallurgical engineering research and development (R&D) at SUNY Poly and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2015, these institutions  spent $290.6 and $4.8 million on this type of engineering R&D, respectively, giving the Albany-Schenectady-Troy MSA a total of $295.4 million.

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