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The Web site designates business categories under "start up," "grow up," "move up," and "fire up."

By 2050, one in five Utah residents will be age 60 or older. Last year, only about one in 10 Utah residents was age 60 or older. Baby boomers are those born from 1946 to 1964.

"There is, I think, a time and a place for all communities to really begin to take globalization seriously," Huntsman said. "Through today’s announcement, it is proof positive that we are in fact reaching out to find the best and the brightest to run our globalization and international trade efforts."

USTAR was created by lawmakers earlier this year as a government, education and business partnership with the goal of bringing $4.9 billion in new research funding and more than 123,000 high-tech jobs into Utah over the next 30 years.

Utah has offered Allegheny Technologies Inc. as much as $3.25 million in an incentive to persuade the Pittsburgh, Pa., metals manufacturer to expand in Tooele County.

"In most of rural Utah, you don’t have a shortage of jobs. You have a shortage of people. If you look at (Department of) Workforce Services statistics, there are hundreds of jobs that they have a difficult time filling. … The crisis right now is finding people who have skills in terms (of jobs) that are already there.

The Governor’s Office of Economic Development Board approved three financial incentives on Friday, including: Full Story: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635208926,00.html

The U., he said, has "2,000 brilliant, pointy-headed professors, but they’re not businesspeople."

State economic development officials want to help more in-state companies benefit from financial incentives that historically have been used to lure out-of-state firms to Utah.

Bishop attributed much of the success that Chisco experienced to the planning by the state’s trade representatives. They worked for months arranging the face-to-face meetings between the Utah business owners and their counterparts in Mexico.
"Everyone who I met with already had copies of our product brochures. They were familiar with Chisco and what it did, and many were ready to do business," Bishop said.