Building an Innovation Campus? This President Has 3 Tips

Virginia Tech is building a $1-billion innovation campus in Northern Virginia, and expectations are high. The state is investing hundreds of millions of dollars and anticipates that new and expanded programming will help expand the regional technology work force. The project helped lure Amazon’s second headquarters to the region, and campus officials hope to pull in corporate collaborations to do cutting-edge work.   
Similar things could have been said years ago of Cornell Tech — the applied-sciences collaboration between Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, now located on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan.