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Local News - Local News - January 17, 2013
Innovate Washington is ready to grow
Technology-focused economic development group to bolster staff, develop energy hub

By Linn Parish
Of the Journal of Business

Innovate Washington CEO Kim Zentz says the statewide organization expects to hire a handful of people before August.
Innovate Washington CEO Kim Zentz says the statewide organization expects to hire a handful of people before August.
—Staff photo by Linn Parish
Quietly operating for a year and a half as a statewide technology-related economic development agency, Innovate Washington expects to make more noise in the coming year.

As it does so, Innovate Washington CEO Kim Zentz says, the organization's focus is on bolstering a cluster of sectors statewide, rather than attracting businesses to a specific geographic region within the state.

"We're putting a strong emphasis on telling the story of innovation in Washington stat...


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