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ScaleUp West Virginia SBIR/STTR Assistance Program The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are highly competitive programs that encourages domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research & Development that has the potential for commercialization. Through the program, companies can be awarded funding to study the feasibility of a […]
Brittany Murray, Staff Writer, Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram June 19, 2016 CLARKSBURG — Today’s workforce has to keep pace with new technology and methods in the manufacturing sector. Dealing in the areas of advanced energy, chemicals and advanced materials, biosciences and biometrics, Anne Barth, executive director of TechConnect in Charleston, said today’s manufacturing industry is not the […]
Charleston, W.Va. – TechConnect West Virginia, a non-profit organization working to advance innovation-based economic development and growth in West Virginia, recently announced its new slate of officers and a new member to the group’s Board of Directors for the 2016-2017 term. They include: Chair of the Board: Thomas A. Vorbach, Member; Steptoe & Johnson PLLC […]
The Women & Technology Conference aims to encourage women involved in technology education and research, private enterprises, the public sector, investing, and entrepreneurship. The 2016 event will explore how women and technology can help to revitalize West Virginia’s economy.
Charleston, W.Va. — Anne Barth, executive director of TechConnect West Virginia, has been selected by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to serve on the Science & Research Council of the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. Barth will serve a term ending June 30, 2019. The Science & Research Council works to increase the capacity of […]
WV Public Broadcasting April 6, 2016 How to create jobs and grow industry in West Virginia — that was the topic of a forum held Wednesday at the Bridge Valley Community and Technical College’s Advance Technology Center in South Charleston. West Virginia tech industry leaders gathered with representatives from both of the state’s major universities […]
West Virginia is known for many things – its people, its scenery, its natural resources and, now more than ever, an unbridled entrepreneurial spirit interested in creating opportunity here at home.
Our state’s innovation economy is beginning to blossom but more needs done to capitalize on the opportunities technology offers. West Virginia needs to engineer the foundation and framework upon which a thriving technology economy can be constructed. In essence, we need a roadmap that all stakeholders can follow that sets the course for growing our innovation economy.
Please join Intuit CEO Brad Smith and a select group of state political and opinion leaders, in attending the April 6th Growing Innovation in the Mountain State Policy Forum. The event will take place from 9:30 am-noon at BridgeValley Community & Technical College in the WV Regional Technology Park, in South Charleston.
There is no cost to attend, however, registration is required.
Learn more about “America’s largest seed fund”–the SBIR and STTR programs–at the SBIR Road Show, July 19, 2016, in Morgantown. This is your opportunity to meet one-on-one with SBIR program managers for federal agencies. Registration will open soon.
TechConnectWV recently launched ScaleUp West Virginia, a program designed to help West Virginia companies develop new products and technologies and move them to market; support small manufacturers in adopting advanced tools and processes; and promote increased entrepreneurial activity in our state. The program targets 40 counties, including many that have been particularly affected by the loss of mining jobs, as well as […]
Alcon is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of eye care products and technologies. The company’s largest producer of intraocular lenses is situated just outside Huntington, West Virginia. Intraocular lenses are small artificial lenses that replace the eye’s natural lens following cataract surgery. The Huntington site was built in 1970 and originally owned by California […]