On Thursday, 26 March 2009, the Business Incubator Association of New York State (BIA/NYS, Inc.) announced that CTICE had become the association's newest member.

The Business Incubator Association of New York State, Inc. (BIA/NYS) is a nonprofit trade association established in  2005 and recognized as tax exempt under IRC §501(c)(6). It is governed by a nine-member board of directors elected by the general membership. The board chair is now Woody Maggard of the UB Technology Incubator. See http://bianys.com/about/board.  
 
The BIA/NYS mission is (a) to expand the resources available to incubator-based enterprises and to work with policy-makers on matters affecting them; (b) to promote through co-operation the entrepreneurial activities of incubators within the state; and (c) to network business
incubators, incubating/incubated companies, and other interested parties.

BIA/NYS's dues-paying members operate more than 37 distinct incubator facilities and virtual business incubation programs statewide. This represents the majority of the seriously active business incubators in the state, and spans general purpose, technology, microenterprise, and wet-lab bioscience facilities. Members include both public and private universities, regional nonprofit economic-development organizations, and for-profit incubators.

For more information, visit http://bianys.com.