WAMU: The Diane Rehm Show: Antoine Van Agtmael And Fred Bakker:
“The Smartest Places On Earth: Why Rustbelts Are The Emerging
Hotspots Of Global Innovation”
"If you take Albany, for example, you have Alain Kaloyeros who was a former Christian fighter in Lebanon, and a brilliant physicist, brought in by father Cuomo who gave a billion dollars to start this nanotechnology center. They are at the forefront of semiconductor development in the world. Outside Albany, New York. He leads that.”