Teknekron Corporation

Teknekron Corporation

Type	private
Founded	1968
Headquarters	Incline Village, Nevada, United States
Website	teknekroncorp.com

Teknekron Corporation is one of the world's first technology-focused business incubators. ^[1]

Teknekron was founded in 1968 by Harvey Wagner and several UC Berkeley professors. By 1991 it had grown to $225 million in revenue, a 40% annual rate of growth. .^[1]

The company is registered in the tax shelter of Incline Village in Nevada. Although Wagner had a small office there near his Lake Tahoe house,^[2] most of the company's operations are in Berkeley, the San Francisco Peninsula, and the Dallas–Fort Worth area.

Theoretical and policy research

During the 1960s and 1970s, Teknekron was awarded numerous research contracts by the U.S. government, including the transfer of technology from NASA's space program to civilian uses, ^[3] the dispersal modeling and generation forecasts of noxious gases from power generation,^[4][5] urban effects of drought in San Francisco, ^[6] mental health services in California,^[7] durability of manufactured goods,^[8] and public perceptions of highway safety.^[9]

Contracted research for private clients included Workers' compensation.^[10]

Some of Teknekron's research was performed in partnership with UC Berkeley.^[11]

Incubated businesses

By 1991 four companies had been spun out as separate public companies or sold off, one had failed and six were running as "affiliate companies."^[1]

• IEX Corporation, bought by Tekelec in 1999 for $163 million ^[12][13]
• Integrated Automation, bought by Litton Industries
• Teknekron Energy Resource Analysts Corporation (TERA Corp)
• Teknekron Communications Systems Inc., renamed TCSI in 1995 and bought by Rocket Software in 2003 ^[14]
• Teknekron Financial Services, absorbed by Computer Sciences Corporation
• Teknekron Infoswitch, bought by Greenwich Street Capital Partners in 1999. ^[15]
• Teknekron Sensor Development Corp, a manufacturer of scanning probe microscopy components ^[16]
• Teknekron Software Systems, bought by Reuters in 1993 for $125.1 million ^[17][18]

Partnerships

Teknekron partnered with external firms as well. In 1991 it signed a co-marketing agreement with the Belgian microelectronics research partnership Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre.^[19]

Sources

1. Peters 1991.
2. Clark 1988.
3. Aerospace 1970.
4. Barse 1977.
5. Altshuller 1980.
6. Hoffman 1979.
7. Koran 1984.
8. Lacy 1985.
9. Arnould 1981.
10. Jewell 1974.
11. Jewell 1970.
12. Securities and Exchanges Commission 1999.
13. Files 1999.
14. Alameda Times-Star 2003.
15. Dallas Morning News 1999.
16. Clark 1992.
17. Smith 1993.
18. Evenson 1993.
19. Segers 1993.

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