Regional Economic Development

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Finding a target market and hitting it repeatedly is essential, they advised.

The Utah Board of Business and Economic Development on Thursday approved a $2.25 million incentive for the company to locate in the county.

"These projects will encourage real-world laboratories for innovation and provide models for other organizations as we move forward in developing an electronic health record."

The incubator, part of Boise State University’s West Valley Campus near the Idaho Center, now has 17 resident business clients ranging from a biotechnology firm to an online shopping mall.

Local business leaders traveled to Seattle last week and met with UW medical school staff to push for the study, which they hope will eventually lead to establishment of a full program to train doctors in Spokane.

"You can actually go broke if you do economic development wrong," said Bill Sellers, director of TechConnect East in the Idaho Innovation Center.

Colorado is poised as a regional center for biotechnology research and development but likely won’t become home to large-scale manufacturing, sales or marketing forces, according to a study by the Milken Institute, an independent economic think tank.

The report represents the culmination of a successful year of accompishments under the organization’s five year strategic plan.

the study found that Boise, similar in size to Spokane, has lots in common with one of the most successful knowledge-based economies in the United States: California’s Silicon Valley.