SOUTH BEND — New businesses are now working at Innovation Park at Notre Dame. The technology park is a partnership between South Bend, Notre Dame and the State of Indiana. The hope is that the four new start-up businesses and dozens of future companies can create new jobs.

One of the companies, Unlimited Juice, is developing technology that uses solar power to charge electronic devices.

“The market for these is huge,” said Landon Spitalnik, CEO. “Our first products are for the iPhone, there's over 30 million iPhones, and iPods that are compatible out there.”

The growing company, which hopes to start production in the next six to eight weeks, chose to get its start at Innovation Park at Notre Dame for specific reasons.

“It's a number of connections with the right people and the right place, it's helping find local manufacturing. Anything you need to do, they've got somebody who's done something like it before and can help you,” Spitalnik said.

Technology company Emu Solutions chose to grow at Innovation Park at Notre Dame because of its proximity to the university. Its founders have day jobs as professors, and they wanted easy access to university research.

“We've taken some research we've done at Notre Dame over the past decade and found how can incorporate that into design of better computer systems for the future,” said Jay Brockman, Emu Solutions Founder.

“We see the community benefiting,” said David Brenner, Innovation Park President, “by bringing in dynamic new ideas that are going to stir everyone to be able to reach higher, bring more innovation, enhance economic development, create more jobs, create more opportunity for everyone to really enjoy the great life here in South Bend.”

The other two new clients at Innovation Park are Altapure, which provides high-level sterilization and disinfection technology for large spaces and equipment, and Graham Allen Partners, a private holding company established to make investments in early-stage, high-growth businesses - all of which will be located in Graham Allen’s Innovation Park offices.