MTC Reports
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Building Bridges to Growth: A Roadmap for This roadmap adopts a definition of advanced manufacturing as a process — a way of producing — that “makes extensive use of computer, high precision, and information technologies integrated with a high performance work force in a production system capable of furnishing a heterogeneous mix of products in small or large volumes with both the efficiency of mass production and the flexibility for custom manufacturing in order to respond rapidly to customer demands.” |
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2010 Annual Report Our 2010 annual report offers a summary of the agency’s progress in health care technologies, |
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During the decade between 1998 and 2008, the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) was responsible for directing and administering the Renewable Energy Trust, a fund created by the Commonwealth to provide the Commonwealth and its electricity ratepayers with economic and environmental benefits from renewable energy. This paper describes the origins and purposes of the Trust, explains MTC’s implementation strategies, and highlights what MTC accomplished during the years it administered the Trust. |
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The New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI) and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) released a report that shows tele-ICU technology could save 350 additional lives, benefit hospitals financially, and save more than $122 million annually if broadly and effectively implemented across Massachusetts. Intensive care units (ICUs) are a vitally important component of health care in U.S. hospitals, treating six million of the sickest and oldest patients every year. The choices about how to manage ICUs carry high stakes: ICUs have both the highest mortality and the highest costs in health care, accounting for 4.1 percent of the nation’s $2.6 trillion in annual health care spending, or nearly $107 billion per year. |
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This report is a comprehensive plan for creating new jobs and stimulating economic growth in the Commonwealth through increased international trade and investment. The strategy was developed by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. (MTC) The Strategy reviews the state’s assets, obstacles, and competition from other states. The report affirms Massachusetts’ stature as a global leader in several areas with a world-renowned life sciences industry, world-class academic institutions and research centers, and leading clean technology and alternative energy standards. The Strategy predicates future success on increased interagency collaboration and state interaction with universities and business communities on international economic activities. |
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Our fiscal year 2009 annual report offers a snapshot of our efforts in health care technologies, broadband infrastructure development, and support for cluster growth in the state’s innovation economy. Working through its major divisions—the John Adams Innovation Institute, the Massachusetts e-Health Institute, and the Massachusetts Broadband Institute—the agency is strengthening the innovation economy by supporting and expanding economic clusters. |