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Guest Column by Justin Gaull, Program Manager West Virginia Small Business Development Center In-Tech Program (Innovation and Technology Commercialization) In June, the WV Development Office and WVSBDC In-Tech program were represented at the National Innovation Summit and National SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Conference in Washington, D.C. Large companies, federal agencies, and multi-national government prime […]
West Virginia’s innovation and entrepreneur economy is stronger thanks to efforts over the past two years by TechConnect West Virginia. TechConnect has been advancing an integrated program designed to expand entrepreneurial and business startup efforts that have helped to create new tech-based jobs in high growth industries in West Virginia. The StartUp West Virginia program […]
How’s this for a great example of West Virginia “brain gain”? Peggi Angel, who has a Ph. D. in quantitative proteomics from the University of Georgia, left her position at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Mass Spectrometry Research Center to join Protea Biosciences as Senior Scientist, LAESI Mass Spectrometry Imaging, in Morgantown earlier this year! […]
The following column by Anne Barth, executive director of TechConnect West Virginia, appeared in the July 3rd edition of the Charleston Daily Mail. West Virginia researchers, inventors or entrepreneurs who have an idea for a new product or technology that they would like to more fully develop and commercialize can apply for federal funding through […]
The only incubator in the nation focused solely on commercializing chemistry-based technology, ChemCeption is an innovation hub for any technology involving chemistry, from traditional to green, water to plastics, biotechnology to energy, and more. The Chemical Alliance Zone (CAZ) in conjunction with TechConnectWV officially launched the new incubator on Tuesday, April 1st in Building 2000 […]
Article in the State Journal, March 10, 2014 John M. Maher, Marshall University’s vice president for research, has been elected chairman of the board of TechConnect West Virginia. TechConnect is a statewide economic development organization that fosters and promotes innovation-based businesses and entrepreneurial activities. The group’s members represent education and research, private industry and the […]
The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission released its 2014 EPSCoR video last week. This short video explains how scientific research is directly impacting West Virginia’s economy. “Sustained funding for scientific research in West Virginia, supported by EPSCoR, can lead West Virginia into a new economy, fortified by innovation.” This is what TechConnect is working […]
Column in The Charleston Gazette by Anne Barth, February 27, 2014 “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” This quote by Carl Sagan reminds us that what we don’t know about the universe exceeds that which we do know. And the only way we will learn more is through scientific research. Lately the news […]
More than 80 college student researchers from across West Virginia presented their discoveries at the 11th Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol in Charleston on January 30, 2014. The event, held in the rotunda of the State Capitol, showcased the importance of student research by giving policymakers and capitol visitors the opportunity to talk directly with […]