by Jack Syage,
President, Syagen Technology, Inc.
Wednesday, June
9, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.
Plant Tour,
Dinner, & Presentation
Innovation and entrepreneurship in
vacuum technology are alive and well at Syagen in the City of Tustin. Their
president, Dr. Jack Syage, gave us a fascinating tour and presentation at the
SCCAVS dinner meeting on June 9. His company has developed highly effective
sensors for airport bomb detectors and organic mass spectrometers by extending
vacuum technologies in ionization, quadrupole ion traps, and time-of-flight
mass filters. These innovations have greatly improved sensitivity and selectivity.
In many ways, small businesses like
Syagen are well suited for such innovation. However, Dr. Syage emphasized the
necessity for strategic focus and risk management. A great new technology by
itself is usually not enough to ensure market adoption. Sometimes SBIR money
must actually be turned down in order to stay focused on company priorities. Alliances
and licensing with larger, more established companies are important ways to get
critical resources and market leverage.
During the current lean economic times,
the SCCAVS is proud to sponsor such events and promote the kind of innovation and
entrepreneurship that continues to build our economy. Please send your comments
and suggestions for future programs to: info@sccavs.org
