SALT LAKE CITY The Salt Lake Chamber met Tuesday to launch the newly formed Wasatch Innovation Network, which includes Utah technology companies, state universities, venture capital, local governments and chambers working together to collaborate on innovation efforts in Utah.
The network has been in the works since late last year and aims to bring together the best minds across Utah s leading sectors, working to bring strength and insight to Utah s innovation tech industry.
Because innovation can be a word without a clear definition, Paul Ahlstrom, CEO and co-founder of TechBuzz News, defined it as, the intersection of invention and market insight to do something good.
Wasatch Innovation Network launched to promote Utah Innovation and Business
Salt Lake City Public and private sector organizations across Utah gathered Tuesday to announce a statewide multi-industry initiative to promote research, development, and commercialization with the goal of developing Utah as a global innovation economy. The new organization called the Wasatch Innovation Network (WIN) is a 501(c)6 nonprofit that will promote Utah as an international leader in innovation, technology transfer, manufacturing, and marketing, as well as offer support services to businesses throughout the state.
“There are many moving parts in any innovation ecosystem, and the time is right to connect the whole Wasatch Front,” says Derek Miller, president and CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber and Downtown Alliance, in announcing the new initiative at a press conference hosted with TechBuzz News and Colliers International. “We hear leaders talk more and more about Utah becoming
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ROY Utah leaders on Thursday continued to look forward to the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond as a record number of new vaccinations were reported and the spread of the disease continued trending downward.
Utah s number of COVID-19 cases increased by 487 on Thursday, with three more deaths, according to the Utah Department of Health. Another 46,011 vaccinations were reported, which is the highest number ever administered in a single day, according to state officials.
Gov. Spencer Cox also announced that for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, zero Utah counties are at the high transmission level for COVID-19 under the state s transmission index system. Beaver and Emery counties moved from the high transmission level to the moderate level, meaning that all counties in the state are rated at either the moderate or low transmission level.
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