Part 7: Unrealized Potential: High Technology in Hampton Roads

Authors

Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2005

Publication Title

The State of the Region: Hampton Roads 2005

Pages

88-99

Abstract

On the face of it, Hampton Roads ought to be a technological powerhouse because of the high-level federal research facilities and defense installations located in the area, plus a higher education community of considerable size. Yet, while we can claim the second-greatest technological development of any region in the Commonwealth, we are a very distant second to Northern Virginia and have never realized our potential. Future prosperity in technology is tied to developing the modeling and simulation industry that has sprouted primarily in Suffolk, stimulating Eastern Virginia Medical School’s potential in conjunction with Old Dominion University and vastly increasing support for the sciences and engineering at several institutions, but especially Old Dominion. It’s not clear whether these developments will occur.

Comments

Full document of The State of the Region: Hampton Roads 2005 available at:

https://doi.org/10.25776/frtn-7384

Repository Citation

Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University, "Part 7: Unrealized Potential: High Technology in Hampton Roads" (2005). State of the Region Reports: Hampton Roads. 120.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/sor_reports/120