It will be launched by Underwriters Laboratories at the university's incubator.
Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a global safety science company with 11,000 employees, is to launch a new technology laboratory at the university’s incubator Wyoming Technology Business Centre on the main campus in Laramie. Starting in June, the company will take up an estimated 1,150 square feet of the centre’s 30,000-square-foot for its new lab.
The partnership will create jobs, but act as only a temporary stop-off for the company before it flies the co-operation. Jonathan Benson, CEO of the centre, estimates that UL will move on to another space – which is likely going to be the Cirrus Sky Technology Park, also in Laramie, and partially owned by the university – within about a year and a half. Contrary to its true start-up clients, the centre will not be providing counseling to UL.
UL is a global independent safety science company with 120 years of expertise in safety solutions from the public adoption of electricity to new breakthroughs in sustainability, renewable energy and nanotechnology. The company is aiming to hire between 25 and 50 people within a year, anticipating that most of these will come from the university’s Computer Science programme.
Mike Nuteson, UL’s Information Technology director, noted how the university’s flexibility will allow the laboratory to act as a start-up within the larger company, adding: “The incubator space is allowing us to quickly move in and get up off the ground while we make the best decision for long-term office space.”
