Tri-Cities Tech Business Update

January 2011 Issue

• SIRTI announces $1.5M in awards to WA companies
  The Sirti Foundation, a private foundation established in support of Sirti, announced today that five projects from among twenty applicants were awarded a total of $1.5 million from the Sirti Foundation Energy Innovation Fund. more...
• WingTip offers viable replacement for critical wired networks
  Richland company, WingTip LLC, announced its PlantMESHTM 802.11b/g/n Ethernet wireless mesh network system, which significantly changes the model for plant and outdoor networking. more...
• New website allows easy searching for training, technical assistance
  The Department of Commerce website that allows small businesses and individuals to search for training, technical assistance, and other types of support is now available. more...
• Pacific Northwest's Puralytics Wins National Cleantech Open
  Oregon-based Puralytics, a developer of photochemical water purification products, has been awarded the competition's national prize of $250,000. more...
• New angel investor network focused on life sciences
  The Washington Medical Technology Angel Network (WINGS) is a non-profit angel network that facilitates seed and early stage investments for medical technology companies in Washington State. more...

• Kauffman Labs looking for breakthrough ideas from women scientists and engineers
  Deadline Jan 15. Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation is looking for women scientists and engineers in the U.S. more...
• Resources online
  The column "Local growth could be achieved using local innovation," was published in the Tri-City Herald on December 19. more...

• TREN EVENT: Clean Technologies for Tomorrow
  Jan 18. The Three Rivers Entrepreneur Network presents its January seminar: "Clean Technologies for Tomorrow." One important mission of a national laboratory is the transfer of intellectual property to the private sector for the benefit of the private sector-and the taxpayers who fund the research they do. more...
• Tapping into Technology Transfer and Commercialization: How to Build a Knowledge-Driven Economy
  Jan 19. Join the International Economic Development Council to learn how your community can work to transfer innovations from companies, universities, and research labs to create new products, processes, applications, and services. more...
• Life Science Innovation Northwest Conference
  Mar 2-3. The Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association, in partnership with Burrill & Company, is proud to announce the 11th Annual Life Science Innovation Northwest Conference-an innovative approach to the region's premier life sciences. more...

• PNNL improving commercial building energy efficiency
  Through the Commercial Buildings Partnership, the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and several partners will work together to retrofit existing structures or design new structures that exceed current energy efficiency codes by at least 50 percent for new buildings - and 30 percent for existing buildings. 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.