December 31, 2007 - ...company is financed, in part, by the corporations that will benefit from its discoveries. APS also received a $1.5 million grant through the state's Third Frontier Initiative to advance its optical film research.As a result, the company has no debt, no investors and has seen positive cash flow for three years running.The roots of Akron Polymer Systems can be traced to a marriage of Kent State University (which pioneered LCD technology) and UA (a world leader in polymer...