Florida High Tech Corridor

2013

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Tech���s Fast Pace Can Be a Blur The pace in technology can sometimes be dizzying ��� often not likely to inspire researchers, developers and others to keep a journal as they go about the business of exploring new processes, creating solutions and products, recruiting and training knowledge workers, and bringing ideas to market. So as the Florida High Tech Corridor Council experiment passed the milestone of 15 years, work was begun to catalog some of what has made it a success unique in economic development. Fortunately, the history department at the University of Central Florida boasts a researcher who specializes in southern economic history and under her direction a team of graduate student and faculty historians have had their eyes focused on the Corridor���s rear-view mirror. UCF Associate Professor of History, Dr. Connie Lester, directs RICHES������ the Regional Initiative for Collecting the History, Experiences and Stories of Central Florida, an umbrella program housing interdisciplinary public history projects that bring together different departments at UCF with profit and nonprofit sectors of the community. ���Central Florida has often been associated with large-scale, commercial tourism and housing development, but this study will show that through the work of the FHTCC and its partner universities this region is destined for recognition as a leader in critical technologies,��� said Lester, who along with fellow faculty member Dr. James C. Clark, has led the team through interviews with many of those who put in place the building blocks for the Corridor���s success. Lester and her team are at work on a final product that will include a narrative and visual history that will be housed on both the RICHES��� and FHTCC websites. 40 fht_history_2013.indd 40 florida.HIGH.TECH 2013 2/12/13 5:02 PM

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