BATAVIA — B. Thomas “Tom” Mancuso said he was on the job for about 15 years before he fully grasped the far-reaching economic impact of the Harvester Center, the world’s first business incubator introduced by his late father, Joe, in 1959.

“I didn’t really understand what it was and what it is into the mid-1990s,” said Mancuso, who joined his father at what was then called the Batavia Industrial Center out of college in 1981. “I was trying to learn but all I knew was my family’s way of doing things. And the world’s a little bigger than that.”

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