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President
Visits Region Growing
Entrepreneurs CIRAS
Partnership WHY
iNode? |
You have just
received the first edition of the iNode for the Iowa Innovation Gateway
region which includes Jasper, Mahaska, Due to your
leadership, this region represents the first region in the nation to have
received a Department of Labor Regional Innovation Grant and the first RIG
region to complete its regional innovation plan.
We
now need the help of our entire network to implement the
plan. Just as it takes a village
to raise a child, it takes a network to implement a regional innovation
plan. The quarterly
distribution of the iNode will be used to seek your assistance in
implementing our strategies and in growing our network. It will also
update you on successes in our region. For more
frequent updates on our work and success in the Iowa Innovation Gateway
region, join the network on www.LinkedIn.com. We have created
an Iowa Innovation Gateway group to keep our network engaged and
informed. Coming later this summer will be an interactive website
which will keep the network growing as well. | ||
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Energy Policy Discussion Scheduled in
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This Wednesday,
April 22, 2009, President Barak Obama is scheduled to visit the Iowa
Innovation Gateway community of Very quickly the
Iowa Innovation Gateway region has made great strides in achieving growth
in the targeted industry sector “Sustainable Energy” which is
identified in our regional innovation plan. These new companies join
other sustainable energy companies in the region including PowerFilm Solar
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Nominate a Student for Business
Horizons NOW | |||
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One of our
overarching goals of the regional innovation plan is to create a culture
of entrepreneurism in the You
can easily help us implement this goal by nominating a student from one of
our 20 school districts in the region by clicking
here: http://www.businesshorizonsiowa.com/en/forms/nominate_student.cfm
. This year’s
program starts on Sunday, July 26th and finishes Friday, July
31st. Students spend the whole week on the To learn more
about Business Horizons, high school classes can participate in a special
ICN event scheduled for this Friday which introduces the students to the
kinds of activities they will experience during the weeklong
program. To register for this event, click here:
Business
Horizons ICN Event More information
on Business Horizons is also available at: www.businesshorizonsiowa.com/
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Manufacturing Extension Partnership
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A key component
of the Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED)
methodology on which our regional innovation plan is built is the sharing
and leveraging of resources for implementation. The Iowa Innovation
Gateway region has just entered into a partnership with the CIRAS is home to
the Manufacturing Extension Partnership which receives federal funding
from the National Institute for Standards and Technology. Through a
contract with ABI, some of this NIST/MEP funding will help support our
regional efforts to analyze the manufacturing workers supply pipeline in
the Iowa Innovation Gateway and create a report to help us understand how
to meet the demand for manufacturing skills. Our overarching goal in
completing this work is to create a collaborative regional talent
development system where current and future workforce needs are
met. Much of the data
for this analysis is available due to the hard work of our regional
economic developers. Over the past 4 months, approximately 200 calls
to existing manufacturers in the region have been made by our economic
developers to survey the needs of the manufacturers. This data is
now available in the national Synchronist Business Retention
database. Furthermore, later this summer, we will be able to
benchmark the needs of our regional manufacturers against those in the
rest of the A great big
thank you goes out to CIRAS and our regional economic developers.
This is what we mean when it takes a network to implement a regional
innovation plan!!! | |||
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WHY
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Perhaps some of
you are asking the question “Why iNode” for the name of our regional
newsletter. The name goes back to our vision of creating a dynamic,
vibrant network that works collaboratively in creating a globally
competitive region in In a
communications network, a node (Latin nodus, ‘knot’) is an active
electronic device that is attached to a network, and is capable of
sending, receiving, or forwarding information over a communications
channel. The “i” then represents both We do
hope that indeed within the communications network of the Iowa Innovation
Gateway, the iNode will become a central point of sending, receiving, and
forwarding information to all of you who are supporting our vision.
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