With a renewed and growing focus on manufacturing in the state and nation, TechConnectWV is teaming with the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing (RCBI) at Marshall University on a new program in conjunction with Innovation Works of Pittsburgh designed to increase manufacturing jobs and productivity. The Innovation Adoption Program (IAP) will help […]
Energy technologies and strategies are constantly in transition as countries around the world strive for economic growth and stability, a reasonably healthy environment, and national security. The term TransTech Energy (TTE) refers to transition technologies and strategies that move us along the pathway to a lower carbon, industrially competitive, clean energy economy of the future. […]
TechConnectWV and RCBI announced the first class of StartUp WV Manufacturing on March 5, 2012. Below is a spotlight on two of these innovative and entrepreneurial businesses – HCS Technologies and MarTek Limited. HCS Technologies Inc. HCS Technologies Inc. is a West Virginia-based, disabled veteran-owned company in Morgantown, W.Va. The company is in the business […]
Triadelphia, WV – At the host site of Cedar Lane Farms, a commercial greenhouse and nursery in Wooster, Ohio, a new crop is now in development; raceway ponds full of algae that are capable of generating thousands of gallons of algal oil to be upgraded into renewable biofuel. On Wednesday, Touchstone Research Laboratory of Triadelphia, […]
TechConnect West Virginia aims to help make small manufacturers in the state more competitive through a new “Innovation Adoption Program (IAP),” which will offer funding and guidance for development of new products and processes. The IAP is the latest in a portfolio of business assistance and development programs that have been established recently by TechConnect. […]
The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Regional Conference, held in July in Philadelphia, featured several West Virginians representing organizations that have recently received EDA grants. West Virginia Secretary of Commerce Keith Burdette, Anne Barth of TechConnect, Dr. John Maher of the Marshall University Research Corporation, Mark Felton of Region III Planning and Development Council, and […]
Jack Carpenter, a research and technology consultant in Wheeling, has been named Director of the Innovation Transfer Consortium, a program of TechConnectWV. Funded through a grant provided by the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, the Innovation Transfer Consortium program will provide technology transfer services to West Virginia’s smaller colleges and universities. Eighteen smaller colleges […]
More than ninety people attended TechConnectWV’s forum on June 20 – “Next Steps in Identity Technologies: Biometrics and Beyond” – at the Robert H. Mollohan Research Center. TechConnectWV sponsored the event in conjunction with CSC and IMTAS to bring together stakeholders in the biometrics and identity management sectors to discuss opportunities for collaboration that […]
TechConnectWV has signed a subcontract with URS Corporation, an international engineering and technical firm, to provide support services in regional outreach and technology transfer as part of the firm’s work on behalf of the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). TechConnectWV will partner with the Allegheny Conference, a non-profit economic development organization based in […]
TechConnectWV’s efforts to align existing resources and leverage assets are paying off, and are also being recognized! A June 11, 2012 post (listed below) from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s National Chamber Foundation recognizes TechConnectWV, along with INNOVA and MATRIC, for assisting in the growth of the state’s STEM workforce. U.S. Chamber – Enterprising […]