For years, New Mexico’s strongest argument for becoming a technology hub was something it already had: national laboratories. Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory have spent decades working ontechnologiesthat sit at the edge of computing, physics, sensing, and national security.
The state also has the University of New Mexico, a substantialdefenseand aerospace presence, and a research culture built around technologies that are rarely developed on a normal startup timetable. However, what New Mexico lacked was a mechanism for turning that scientific density into a commercial ecosystem.
For years, New Mexico’s strongest argument for becoming a technology hub was something it already had: national laboratories. Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory have spent decades working ontechnologiesthat sit at the edge of computing, physics, sensing, and national security.
The state also has the University of New Mexico, a substantialdefenseand aerospace presence, and a research culture built around technologies that are rarely developed on a normal startup timetable. However, what New Mexico lacked was a mechanism for turning that scientific density into a commercial ecosystem.
