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North Olympic Peninsula Innovation Partnership Zone

October 2011: We are pleased to announce that the North Olympic Peninsula Innovation Partnership Zone has been re-designated for four more years. 

 

The IPZ designation recognizes the Olympic Peninsula’s potential to grow local businesses through innovation support and entrepreneur development.  “Growing our own” economic development replaces the old model of relying on business recruitment or “smokestack chasing.”

The four participants that applied for and received the IPZ designation were Battelle’s Marine Science Lab in Sequim, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Peninsula College, and the Clallam Economic Development Council.  This group is developing a roadmap that identifies renewable energy solutions such as wind, wave and tidal power.  Its mission is to encourage, support, and catalyze the development of these new technologies as a way of diversifying our natural resources economy.  

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North Olympic Peninsula IPZ awarded one of five grants for cluster development

UPDATE:  For project updates and the final pdf document click here.

The award funds a pre-planning document which will serve as the foundation for future funding applications, the establishment of baseline demographics, initial consensus building at the regional level, and act as a guide for regional economic development efforts in sustainable energy in the North Olympic Peninsula and Grays Harbor IPZs.

For a pdf of the grant request:  Cluster Grant application

For a pdf of the Scope of Work: Cluster Grant Scope of Work

 

                                      

idea to market support

While the IPZ team continues to focus on Sequim’s Marine Science Laboratory’s intellectual properties that could be incubated into viable clean tech, high wage businesses, we realize that there are many other ideas and innovations that could become viable local business opportunities.  We continue to develop the steps and services required to assist any innovator or entrepreneur in getting a viable idea ready for licensing or business development:

 

The EDC is aware of programs and opportunities with Washington state and keeps us connected with whatever resources are available. Shawn Watson, CFO