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View the new video, “Business at the Speed of Life,” produced by the WV Department of Commerce and hear many CEOs of West Virginia companies tell why they’re happy to be located in West Virginia. What firms? Gestamp, Schonstedt Instrument Co., Bombardier, University Girls Apparel, MTV Solar, to name a few. They talk about why […]
Article in the Charleston Gazette, September 5, 2013 CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Community organizers, business boosters, labor officials and religious leaders joined Wednesday to try to jumpstart what they said are long-overdue discussions — and actions — to diversify the economy of West Virginia’s coalfields. A variety of speakers and audience members from nonprofit organizers, government […]
Guy Peduto with the INNOVA Commercialization Group and the West Virginia Jobs Investment Trust are featured in the latest edition (page 48) of the WV Department of Commerce’s WV Edge magazine. Read how INNOVA’s work is helping entrepreneurs achieve commercial success here.Preview
W.Va. innovation awards program established The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON — TechConnectWV, an organization devoted to advancing West Virginia’s high-tech economy, has established a new awards program. Intended to celebrate leadership in innovation and technology-based business development, the awards program is accepting nominations of individuals, organizations, companies and teams through Aug. 30. “We have so many […]
State Journal article, July 16, 2013 http://www.statejournal.com/story/22852402/techconnectwv-announces-spirit-of-innovation-awards-competition TechConnectWV has begun a program called the Spirit of Innovation Awards to recognize leadership in innovation and technology-based business development. “We have so many exciting things going on in our state’s innovation and technology economy — things many West Virginians don’t know about,” Anne Barth, TechConnect WV executive […]
Article in the State Journal, July 12, 2013 By Anne Barth, Executive Director, TechConnect West Virginia Did you know that margarine was invented in response to a contest arranged by Napoleon III? Or that Lindbergh set off on his transatlantic flight in hopes of winning the $25,000 Orteig Prize? Contests have been used as incentives […]
Column in the Charleston Daily Mail, July 8, 2013 By Anne Barth, Executive Director, TechConnectWV Did you know that margarine was invented in response to a contest arranged by Napoleon III? Or that Lindbergh set off on his transatlantic flight in hopes of winning the $25,000 Orteig Prize? Contests have been used as incentives for […]
Anne Barth, Executive Director of TechConnect West Virginia, contributed an article to “Views & Visions,” a publication of Bowles Rice, Attorneys at Law, in the current edition of the magazine, entitled “Creating Tomorrow’s Workforce.” Read this discussion of innovation as an economic driver and what’s happening in West Virginia here (pages 12-13).
The August edition of Delta Sky Magazine has an article featuring West Virginia that includes information about the four technology sectors targeted by TechConnectWV for development, as well as quotes from State leaders and officials, several members of the TechConnectWV Board, and Anne Barth, executive director (page 7). It’s nice to know good words about […]
Later this week I will attend the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in Chicago. While there, I’ll join a working group on high-growth entrepreneurship. Topics up for discussion include how to remove barriers to entrepreneurship for underserved populations, engaging corporate partners to help the next generation of startups, crowdfunding and the debut of equity crowdfunding, and […]