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
The 2nd Annual TransTech Energy Business Development Conference was held Nov. 6-7, 2013 at the Waterfront Place Hotel in Morgantown, WV. The yearly conference is designed to promote investment in new companies that can provide solutions to energy, environmental, and economic development challenges, while also creating new jobs and more competitive industries. Total attendance over […]
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 […]
TechConnect hosted the inaugural Spirit of Innovation Awards Banquet on October 22 at the Waterfront Place Hotel in Morgantown. The Spirit of Innovation Awards are an opportunity to celebrate successes in innovation in West Virginia, and to recognize individuals and organizations who are leaders in supporting innovation and innovation-based business development. With many exciting developments underway in our […]
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 […]
Vision Shared West Virginia has published a new report that highlights West Virginia’s potential for realizing the benefit of shale resources as well as certain policies currently in place in West Virginia that promote the State as an ideal environment for long term industry development. The 45-page report, titled “Value Added Opportunities For Natural Gas,” […]