Montana Economic Development

International ambassadors, really rich guys and even some Montana celebs are coming to talk about development and ways to boost Montana’s companies and economy.

The growth hinges on regulatory approval and construction of the Montana Alberta Tie, a 203-mile-long transmission line that would tie into the U.S. power grid at Great Falls and the Canadian grid in Lethbridge, Alberta.

InfoTech probably would start with 35 jobs in Great Falls, which could grow to 100 in the future, according to the earmark request the GFDA submitted to Baucus.

The Montana Technology Innovation Partnership Program is offering some exciting new seminars in 2007.

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A notice on the summit Web site, http://www.montanaeconomicsummit07.org, told visitors Monday that "registrations are nearing the capacity limits for the Montana Tech facilities. As a result of these limitations, we expect that it will be necessary to suspend registration."

The state’s support of small technology firms is expanded to ALL sectors of Montana’s burgeoning technology-business community, regardless of their involvement with SBIR and STTR.

http://dli.state.mt.us/pub/mainstreet/mstreet032007.pdf

“Two million dollars gets them a start,” Laible said. “My feeling about the whole college of technology is that we as a state are missing the boat. This is just not about Ravalli County. We need to expand the resources that we use to get our young people the skills so they can get higher paying jobs so they will stay here.”