Lilly Endowment Gives $39 Million For Ag-related Internet Of Things Research

Wabash Heartland Innovation Network, or WHIN, which includes Purdue President Mitch Daniels and several Purdue trustees, will send the cash to the school’s Birck Nanotechnology Center, where much of the research will be done.

But the issue of what will be invented is still very much up in the air. WHIN board member Todd Miller is the CEO of Myers Spring, a Logansport spring manufacturer. He says he can envision ways his company might benefit.

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• Source: Wbaa
• Via: Stan Jastrzebski

A ten-county area of West Central Indiana is about to get a nearly $40 million investment from the Lilly Endowment aimed at making farming and related industries more internet-compatible. The cash is going to the Wabash Heartland Innovation Network, or WHIN (pronounced “win”), which will send the cash to Purdue University as research seed money.

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