Tri-Cities Tech Business Update

October 2009 Issue

• Infinia receives grant award
  Kennewick, WA-based Infinia Corporation has received a federal grant for its Low Maintenance and Low Cost Cryocooler technology. more...
• Solar company establishing R&D center in Richland
  The China-based company GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Limited is setting up a solar energy research and development center in Richland, WA. more...
• IsoRay receives FDA clearance
  IsoRay, Inc., based in Richland, Wash., has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration that will allow the company to expand its market for its ProxcelanTM Cesium-131 brachytherapy seeds. more...
• Meier honored by AREVA
  Meier Architecture Engineering, based in Kennewick, Wash., has been selected as an AREVA Certified Supplier. more...
• TRIDEC welcomes new staff member
  Kayla Pratt is the newest member of the Tri-City Development Council team. She recently joined the organization as the Communications and Member Services Director. more...

• Washington Technology Center grant funding
  The Washington Technology Center is accepting grant applications for the Research & Technology Development grant program. more...
• Zayed Future Energy Prize
  The Zayed Future Energy Prize is open for nominations. The annual award is given by the government of Abu Dhabi to honor individuals, companies, non-government organizations and organizations for achievements that reflect innovation, long-term vision, and leadership in renewable energy and sustainability. more...
• Tech Alliance Innovation Showcase
  The Washington State Technology Alliance has launched a program called the Innovation Showcase designed to create a more connected innovation community and increase the commercialization of technologies developed within Washington's research institutions. more...
• Secrets of NIH Small Business Grant Applications
  The Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association is hosting two sessions focused on grant preparation and research funding from the National Institutes of Health. more...
• Resources online
  1) The column "National labs, communities should communicate" was published in the Tri-City Herald on August 30. more...

• Survival Strategies for Small Business
  OCTOBER 7. The workshop "Survival Strategies for Small Business" will be held in Tacoma, Wash. more...
• Workforce and Economic Development Conference
  OCTOBER 27-29. The Workforce and Economic Development Conference will be held in Spokane, Wash. in October. more...
• Entrepreneur University 2009 - Dig In, Branch Out
  NOVEMBER 5. The Northwest Entrepreneur Network's annual Entrepreneur University event will be held in Bellevue, Wash. more...
• Harvesting Clean Energy 2010
  FEBRUARY 7-9, 2010. The 10th annual Harvesting Clean Energy Conference will be held at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, Wash., in February. more...
• Life Science Innovation Northwest Conference
  MARCH 16-17, 2010. The Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association will hold the first Life Science Innovation Northwest Conference in Seattle in March. more...

• PNNL wins awards for software development
  The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. has been selected to receive an award from CIO Magazine. more...
• PNNL researcher receives Life Sciences Discovery Fund grant
  A researcher at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. more...
• PNNL researcher named NIH Innovator of the Year
  An analytical chemist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized with a National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award. more...

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Tri-Cities Tech Business Update is published by the Economic Development Office at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Each month, we send you an e-mail message, giving you the link of news, tips, awards, upcoming events, and other information about local technology-based businesses and organizations that support them. With business and community partners, our goal is to build and diversify the Tri-Cities economy—adding skilled jobs in primary-sector industries that bring in outside dollars. Currently, more than 1,100 tech-related businesses, investors, and economic development stakeholders subscribe to the newsletter, mostly in the Mid-Columbia area and the rest of the Pacific Northwest. This newsletter (RL-P00-009) supports PNSO's vision for the future of the Hanford Site and surrounding area through the creation of research opportunities, new industries, and new business clusters.