Tri-Cities Tech Business Update

August 2010 Issue

• DOE announces $30M in funding to commercialize clean energy technologies
  The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that $30 million in funding from the Recovery Act and FY 2010 budget appropriations will be made available to qualified small businesses to support the commercialization of promising new clean energy technologies. more...
• Richland breaks ground on solar project
  Richland's electric utility is working to add solar power to its grid in order to fulfill a requirement of a clean energy initiative passed by WA state voters in 2006. more...
• Local organizations win Vivid Learning Systems' & Imageworks' top prizes
  More than 150 people representing businesses and non-profit organizations from around the Columbia Basin turned out for the 3rd Annual Refresh event, held at Vivid Learning Systems in Pasco. more...
• Dade Moller & Associates' VP earns national recognition
  Mitzi Miller, vice president of Dade Moller & Associate's Environmental Programs, received the 2010 Assessor Choice Award from the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation. more...
• PNNL EDO on Facebook
  The Economic Development Office at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is now on Facebook. The EDO page provides frequent updates and information about economic development activities and opportunities to help businesses start, grow, or revitalize. more...

• Call to entrepreneurs
  The ZINO Society will present the 5th annual ZINO Zillionaire Investment Forum (ZZIF) on September 15, 2010 at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle. more...
• Life Sciences Discovery Fund grant competition
  The Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) is now accepting pre-proposals in a second round of the 2010 Commercialization Grant Competition. more...
• Resources online
  The column "Program exchanges green backs for green cards," was published in the Tri-City Herald on July 4. more...

• Tri-Cities Research District (TCRD) Speaker Series September event
  September 22. PNNL, Mission Support Alliance, LLC, and Washington State University Tri-Cities are teaming to host the next event in the Speaker Series. more...
• Learn the secrets of NIH grant applications
  August 3 - Seattle; August 4 - Spokane. The Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association presents two workshops focused on helping small businesses better understand the National Institutes of Health (NIH) small business grant application process, as well as bridging the gap between discovery and commercialization. more...
• 8TH annual Gesa Smartmap Expo
  September 29-30. The Smartmap Expo is the state's premier manufacturing networking event that brings together many of the 3,500 manufacturing companies in eastern Washington for a two-day conference. more...
• IEEE Smart Grid Series: Why does it matter?
  August 2, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm. IEEE Richland Section and IEEE Power and Energy Society Richland Chapter are jointly hosting the second in a series of events focused on the "smart grid." At this event, learn the new functionalities of a "smart grid" and how it helps to make our energy systems sustainable. more...
• Nominations open for Richland's Green Recognition Program
  Applications are being accepted for the City of Richland's 2010 Green Recognition Program under categories such as Overall Effort, Green Project/Program, Process Change or Event. more...
• Northwest Entrepreneur Network First Look Forum; call for applications
  Application deadline August 18. The Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN) is the region's home for innovative businesses in every growth sector in our economy, from web 2.0 to medical technology, clean tech to consumer products. more...
• Strategic investment conference
  October 13-15. The National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF) annual conference, to be held in Baltimore, MD, exchanges strategies and tools for building and managing strategic investment programs and institutions. more...
• WBBA's Governors Life Sciences Summit
  October 22. The Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association (WBBA) is combining the Governor's Summit and its annual meeting for this year's Life Sciences Summit. more...

• PNNL battery research could reduce cell phone charging time
  New battery materials developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Vorbeck Materials Corporation, could enable devices powered by electricity to recharge in minutes rather than hours. 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.