Tri-Cities Tech Business Update

October 2010 Issue

• InnovaTek Inc. and Infinia, winners of multi-million dollar AARA funding
  Tri-Cities-based companies, InnovaTek Inc. and Infinia, were selected as two of 33 projects awarded American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to accelerate commercialization of clean energy technologies, increase American competitiveness, and create jobs. more...
• Richland a great choice for second career
  Richland was named among the best places in America to launch a second career in a recent U.S. News and World Report article. more...
• Local businesses team to promote manufacturing as career to young women
  TRIDEC, InnovaTek Inc, and SIGN have partnered together to get women in high school to think about the manufacturing business. more...
• Former local company, InEnTec, wins Wall Street Journal Innovation Award
  PNNL spinoff InEnTec was named a winner in the energy category of the Wall Street Journal's annual Innovation Awards for technology advancements. more...
• Impact Washington to create state's first manufacturing report
  Impact Washington, formerly Washington Manufacturing Services, has announced that it will this fall conduct a survey of the state's 7,500 manufacturers in order to create the first comprehensive "Manufacturing in Washington State Report." The survey will be designed to collect measurable data about the opportunities, challenges, health, and job creation abilities of Washington State manufacturers. 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 for applications: Funding available for feasibility studies for renewable energy systems for agriculture producers and rural small businesses
  Deadline - October 5. Under this application, the United States Department of Agriculture is making $3 million available to conduct feasibility studies. more...
• Call for applications: Sirti announces $1.5 million Energy Innovation Fund
  Deadline - October 20. Sirti announced the Energy Innovation Fund which is intended to serve a broad base of clean energy technologies or services from early-stage companies, as well as established companies with demonstration projects of new clean energy technologies or service models. more...
• Resources online
  The column "Tri-Cities an ideal environment for biofuels research," was published in the Tri-City Herald on September 5. more...

• Cleantech Open Final Awards and Venture Expo in Seattle
  October 4. This is a showcase of the cleantech entrepreneurial talent that exists in our region. It will feature the 2009 and 2010 semifinalists and their technologies "expo-style" and also conclude with the announcement of the three 2010 regional finalists that will move on to the national finals in November. more...
• Tri-Cities Livable Sustainable Communities Forum
  October 7. This workshop's goal is to raise awareness among developers, policy-makers, planners, and all related professionals about sustainable development practice and how it benefits human, health, and economic development for communities. more...
• Washington Future Energy Conference
  November 9-10. Presented by Washington state and the Northwest Environmental Business Council, this event offers a forum to connect those developing strategies for energy security and economic development with the businesses making it happen. more...
• Certified Enterprise Risk Manager Workshop
  Register online or contact Greg Hutchins at 503-233-1012 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...
• MIT Enterprise Forum - Bringing Intelligence to the Electric Grid
  October 13. Presented by the MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta, this forum will discuss the demands of cost, reliability, efficiency, safety, conservation, and decentralization are challenging the nation's electrical grid, which has changed very little since its development more than a century ago. more...

• Hazardous waste tracking tool puts PNNL atop business tech list
  A software tool that tracks hazardous chemical, biological and radiological materials used in scientific research throughout their lifecycle, as well as general property, has earned Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) a spot high on the prestigious InformationWeek 500 list of most innovative users of business information technology. more...

We invite your contributions! We will consider items that fit the mission of this publication, including your tech-related news, awards, and notices of upcoming events. Please send text and photos to Diane Kahler or call (509) 372-4133.

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.