<\/div>\nI had the privilege last week to attend a meeting at Cal State Long Beach whose organizers hoped it would be viewed as a “watershed moment” in the history of the university. <\/span>The meeting was to organize and kick off a virtual Business Technology Center Affiliate Program based in Long Beach. <\/span>The program is “affiliated” with the bricks-and-mortar Business Technology Center in Altadena<\/font><\/a> (pictured). <\/span>That technology incubator was developed through the hard work of my friend Bill Lyte, a consultant with Kennedy-Jenks, and Robert Swayze, whom Long Beach is now fortunate to have as its Economic Development Bureau Manager. <\/span>The Altadena center will celebrate its 9th<\/sup> anniversary next month.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Here in Long Beach, the affiliate program will provide services to technology entrepreneurs to assist them in commercializing technologies of all types. <\/span>For example, entrepreneurs will have access to mentoring and coaching, contact with “angel” and venture capital investors, access to seed capital, and a choice of seminars and workshops, to mention just a few of the benefits<\/font><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n During the meeting, Port of Long Beach Harbor Commission Vice President Mike Walter, Bill Lyte, and I teamed up to express the view that goods movement provides an especially fertile field for technology development. <\/span>I see a need for information technology (to improve security and efficiency), environmental technology (to reduce emissions and other impacts), and in the longer term, alternative transportation technology that could offer electrically-powered ways to move freight. <\/span>(Cal State Long Beach’s Center for the Commercial Deployment of Transportation Technologies, or CCDoTT<\/font><\/a>, studies and helps to develop these technologies.)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Personally, I’m excited about the prospect of focused technology development here in Long 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