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Cultivating entrepreneurs in Washington State.
Economic Gardening is a proven model for helping entrepreneurs move from a successful small business to a flourishing and mature company. Since its introduction in Washington State in 2016, over 20 second stage businesses have benefited from the peer learning,...
New batteries offer clean energy storage.
Clean energy sources such as wind and solar have long offered a clear path to less pollution and greener energy. However, storing it has been next to impossible, until now. UniEnergy Technologies, based in Mukilteo, Washington, thinks it has found the answer:...
Blue Origin nabs prestigious award.
Jeff Bezo's Blue Origin has been awarded the 2016 Robert J. Collier Trophy for "successfully demonstrating rocket booster reusability with the New Shepard human spaceflight vehicle through five successful test flights of a single booster and engine, all of which...
Washington companies increase manufacturing efficiencies.
Sometimes it's the small things that make the biggest impacts. Washington technology companies are helping to improve the efficiency and production in a variety of advanced manufacturing and clean energy applications. For instance, BluHaptics, has developed software...
Boomtown. Seattle skyline still dotted with cranes.
The growth spurt appears to be a strong and steady trend projecting out at least through 2019. The current building boom is primarily apartments for the growing workforce in Seattle. Major corporations are moving into downtown and the city is developing into a...
Battlefield medicine finds new ally at UW.
University of Washington researchers aim to create the next generation of mannequins, with warm “flesh,” moist “tongues” and other human traits for training battlefield medics. Thanks to an $8 million research grant from the Department of Defense, doctors at the WWAMI...
To the moon (and back).
Blue Origin has debuted its new BE-4 engine, which will power a new generation of rockets, including the company's own New Glenn spacecraft. A follow-on to New Shepard, the New Glenn will have the capability of flying missions to the moon. The new engines were built...
U.S. News touts Washington’s business advantages.
Superlatives can only do so much. Sometimes it takes a national news magazine to capture the very essence of Washington's competitive strengths, from our diversified industries and cross-collaboration between businesses to our investments in STEM and higher education,...
Washington State: Best in the West, Fifth in U.S.
The recent ranking of Best States across the country by U.S. News and World Report puts Washington # 5 using 60 metrics comparing economy, healthcare, infrastructure, education, crime/corrections, government and opportunity. And, Washington ranks well above other...
Mini microscope in your pocket.
Ever wish you could look really close at something you just found? Thanks to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington now you can. Or better yet, a doctor in a remote area can whip out a smartphone or tablet and take a close look at a...
Apple tackles AI in Seattle.
Apple has announced plans to expand its engineering offices in Seattle. In addition to working on projects related to Maps, iCloud and iTunes, the team will tackle artificial intelligence and machine learning for a new generation of apps and services for its devices....
Building better, bigger rockets.
Washington State has been a leader in aerospace manufacturing for over a century. And, as the design of spacecraft, rockets and booster systems grows in the state, so does the manufacturing side of the equation. Blue Origin, one of several Washington-based space...