Clallam EDC: Clallam County Economic Development Council"

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North Olympic Peninsula Innovation Partnership Zone

In October 2007, the State of Washington designated Clallam EDC the Zone Administrator of the North Olympic Peninsula Innovation Partnership Zone.  

 

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 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.                                        

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:

 

EDC assistance has meant our first federal contract. Now we’re on the map as a federal contractor. Mike Rainey, CFO