The Technology Innovation Center (TIC) is MCRPC’s award winning, self-supporting 137,000-sq. ft. high-technology business incubator – one of the largest in the United States. Since opening its doors in March 1993, the TIC has attracted over 140 firms (including 99 graduates) and helped create over 1,000 new high paying jobs. Currently 46 companies with over 230 employees occupy space in the building. Over two-thirds of these employees hold jobs created since the firms first entered the building. The majority of TIC companies are in information technologies (60%), followed by medical and biotechnology (25%). The remainder are in electronic equipment, industrial automation, engineering, composite materials, and other technologies (15%).