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  By: Bruce Jackson, Business Development Manager, Life Sciences On April 19, I made the cross-state trek to participate as a judge in WSU’s annual business plan competition.  I was impressed.  Annually the Harold Frank Entrepreneurship Institute at WSU teams … Read More →

  By Steve Gerritson, VP, EDC of Seattle and King County I started going to baseball games when I was about eight years old. My father would take me, my best friend, and his father to “State of Maine” day … Read More →

  The Environmental Industry Summit, an annual conference that focuses on environmental engineering firms and their markets, reported a healthy upturn in revenues for this industry last year and continued optimism for the future. The turnaround is due in part … Read More →

Post by: Steve Gerritson, Vice President of the EDC and Clean Energy & Technology Program Director On January 28, I attended the WCTA’s Energy Policy Conference at which Assistant Secretary of Defense Sharon Burke described her division’s efforts to bring … Read More →

  At our Economic Forecast Conference last week, EDC President Jeff Marcell mentioned a critical tool measure the successes and challenges we share in the business community. That tool is the Puget Sound’s annual Job Sector Survey (JSS). The EDC is a … Read More →

By: Steve Gerritson, Vice President, Economic Development Council of Seattle and King County Although natural gas is widely used as a vehicle fuel in Asia and parts of Europe, natural gas fueled vehicles account for less than 0.1% of the … Read More →

By David Allen, Investor Campaign Chair and Executive Vice President, McKinstry The Economic Development Council of Seattle and King County (EDC) has earned its role as the leading economic development organization in the region through hard work, innovation, expertise, and … Read More →

We here at the EDC just wanted to welcome you to our new website. Check back to the blog section in the future for different articles concerning what’s up and coming here at the EDC.