TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
TECHNOLOGY PARKS & CENTERS
NELHA
THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII AUTHORITY (NELHA) is a state agency that operates a unique and innovative ocean science and technology park in Kailua-Kona on the island of Hawaii. Strategically located at Keahole Point next to the Kona International Airport and adjacent to one of the steepest bathymetric offshore slopes in the Hawaiian Islands, NELHA offers an incredible combination of assets in one location. NELHA's assets include office and laboratory facilities, infrastructure, pristine natural resources, and leasable open land for use by tenant research, education, and commercial projects. A dual-temperature seawater system that is the only one of its kind in the world sets NELHA apart from all other technology parks and creates a prime setting for innovation and new industry development in this island coastal setting. NELHA aims to attract tenants who can use the unique complement of natural and logistical resources to engage in successful, productive research, education, and commercial activities that support sustainable industry development in Hawaii. Numerous innovative research projects have been completed at NELHA in the past and spawned new commercial enterprises that are established and successful businesses today. A public charter school was created at NELHA to take advantage of the many resources of this growing ocean science and technology community. A new federally funded facility, the NELHA Gateway project, will provide a setting for leading edge research and development in distributed energy resources and renewable energy technologies, and a new commercial Ocean Center development that will provide opportunities for new ocean-related businesses. Administratively attached to the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), NELHA is funded by allocations from the Hawaii State Legislature and revenues collected from its tenants for use of facilities and services. NELHA is a prime example of visionary public investments, initiated in 1974, that have yielded multiple returns for the benefit of all.
MEDB
MEDB is a not-for-profit corporation established to diversify Maui's economy. Since its inception in 1982, MEDB has spearheaded initiatives such as development of the Business Research Library and the annual Maui County Data Book, Maui Science for Early Educational Development (SEED), and Maui High Performance Computing Center.
PICHTR
PICHTR is an independent, non-profit, applied research and development center incorporated in Hawaii with an international board of directors from the United States, Asia, and the Pacific region. PICHTR promotes and develops technology appropriate to the marine and tropical environment of the Asia-Pacific region and assists, facilitates and supports its application through technical services, education, and training.
Manoa Innovation Center
The Manoa Innovation Center is a high-tech business incubator, linking emerging commercial high-tech ventures to university-oriented research and development organizations. Its purpose is to facilitate the transfer of technology and foster joint development projects between the University of Hawaii, private and non-profit research organizations and the Center's high-tech occupants.
Mililani Technology Park
The Mililani Technology Park is home to companies such as AT&T Wireless, State Farm Insurance, Castle & Cooke, Inc., Kaiser Permanente and many more. Mililani Technolgy Park land is available for purchase (fee simple), and is Hawaiis only non-leasehold business park providing resources such as broadband fiber optic and DSL connections, links to the University of Hawaii's Ethernet Network, and access to the Maui Supercomputer.
Kapolei Business Park
The Kapolei Business Park leases land that is connected to the trans-Pacific fiber-optic cable network via the adjacent Kapolei Teleport, through which telecommunications providers have the unique advantage of seeing satellites over North America and Asia at the same time. This unique telecommunication advantage supports private secure networks for global voice, data and video transmissions.
West Kauai Visitor Center
The West Kauai Visitor Center bridges the Science & Technology and Visitor communities through its state of the art facility, utilizing interactive multi media presentations capable of portraying the many facets of Kauai and it's people. The Center provides the Visitor with an unequalled experience of Kauai from the Polynesian voyagers to NASA's most sophisticated technology.
MRTC
MRTC is a high-tech business incubator dedicated to supporting technology-oriented businesses and promoting the growth of high added-value jobs. Centrally located in the Maui Research & Technology Park on more than five acres, the 40,000-square-foot Center brings together a diversity of enterprises.
Research Park at the University of Hawaii at Hilo
The Research Park at the University of Hawaii at Hilo is world-renown for its observatories of Mauna Kea. Mauna Kea is the world's largest volcano and has been inactive for the last 4,500 years. These observatories include the Joint Astronomy Center, the Subaru-Japanese National Telescope Center, the California Institute of Technology sub-millimeter Telescope, and the Gemini Observatory. A number of new facilities are being built and more are in the planning stage. There is tremendous potential for companies to provide services such as: data gathering and analysis, instrument control and high-speed communications.
Hawaii Opportunities Group
HOG operates a technology business incubator called Greenhouse@1132.
HICH
HICH is owned by the University of Hawaii at Hilo and operated in partnerhsip with the High Technology Development Corporation. HICH is a business incubator for start-up and early-stage companies based in Hilo or on the Island of Hawaii.
