Willamette Valley Bioscience Industry Consortium

Oregon's newest emerging cluster

The Business Enterprise Center, Inc. and the Willamette Valley Bioscience Industry Consortium have joined forces to gain support from the Oregon Economic Development Department for Oregon's newest emerging traded-sector cluster.

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Too much time on my hands and not enough money or customers for the BEC! What an economy.
Status posted by Bill Ford Jul 13, 2010
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Bill Ford commented on Bill Ford's blog post 'Nice article in today's G/T IN Business section about Bioscience Consortium'
Just heard through the grapevine that Barbara Bessy has replaced Alan Fudge as the Interim Director of the Small Business Development Center at LBCC working with Gary Price. Guess I should call and congratulate both Alan who did a fantastic job and…
Jul 13, 2010
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Nice article in today's G/T IN Business section about Bioscience Consortium

Barbara Bessy was featured in an article today about the Willamette Valley Bioscience Industry Consortium. She told them all about the great stuff that was happening to help coordinate and promote bioscience. Way to go Barbara!
Blog post by Bill Ford Nov 8, 2009
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Larry Plotkin was featured Oct 17, 2009
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Sweet Victory in Bend at the 6th Annual Venture Conference

Larry Plotkin a member of the WVBIC, CEO and Founder of Precision Plant Systems, Inc. did a master-full job yesterday at the Bend Venture conference. The competition was stiff and yet he was able to convince the judges that his CropIQ system and business was worth supporting to the tune of the $120,000 cash prize. A lot of hard work went into the presentation and the entire Precision Plant Team is to be congratulated. Precision Plant Systems, Inc. is a resident client of the regional business…See More
Blog post by Bill Ford Oct 17, 2009
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Hi HO Jeremy---I put this ning site up while I waited for the more secure and official site to be established by the OBA. I think it helped but was never the viral growth site that I had hopes for. Still working for job growth via the establishment…
Oct 4, 2009
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Sep 6, 2009
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www.makemoneywith-google.com is now a member of Willamette Valley Bioscience Industry Consortium Sep 6, 2009

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Nice article in today's G/T IN Business section about Bioscience Consortium

Barbara Bessy was featured in an article today about the Willamette Valley Bioscience Industry Consortium. She told them all about the great stuff that was happening to help coordinate and promote bioscience. Way to go Barbara!

Posted by Bill Ford on November 7, 2009 at 6:31pm — 1 Comment

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Sweet Victory in Bend at the 6th Annual Venture Conference

Larry Plotkin a member of the WVBIC, CEO and Founder of Precision Plant Systems, Inc. did a master-full job yesterday at the Bend Venture conference. The competition was stiff and yet he was able to convince the judges that his CropIQ system and business was worth supporting to the tune of the $120,000 cash prize. A lot of hard work went into the presentation and the entire Precision Plant Team is to be congratulated. Precision Plant Systems, Inc. is a resident client of the regional business… Continue

Posted by Bill Ford on October 17, 2009 at 12:30pm

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Confusion Reigns or for Oregon should it be rains?

The Oregon Way...the governor has attempted to provide a system and process to achieve accountability and transparency over all the ARRA money coming to Oregon. A lot of great information is on the web site but the first energy deadline is tomorrow April 15th. It is a shame that those submitting, at least us, were unable to have our form sent through the web site as required. Our IT folks assured us that the error was NOT on our end. We ended up using snail mail to get the submission post… Continue

Posted by Bill Ford on April 14, 2009 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

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2 County Renewable Energy Project for Mid Willamette Valley?

Is it possible that Linn and Benton County can work together along with OSU, a local non profit, a couple of cities and a couple of private start up companies to create a novel and innovative solution for a renewable energy source? Stay tuned because it seems a possibility if the State of Oregon and Department of Energy are really serious about job creation and novel renewable energy solutions. The feedstock would be algae. The two private companies would be Bioalgene and OrAgrow. Both… Continue

Posted by Bill Ford on March 23, 2009 at 7:42pm

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Marion county, Willamette University and the Hospital in Salem?

Today, the big 3 of Vermiculture in Mid Willamette Valley, met to discuss the possibility of having a commercial reactor solving some of the problems that the populace of Marion County may be facing. This is a problem that the knowledgeable are seeking solutions for and yet most folks don't read about it, hear about it, understand it, care about it or even suspect that their precious tax dollars are going to be under utilized trying to solve it. The problem of wet waste going to the burner and… Continue

Posted by Bill Ford on March 9, 2009 at 9:42pm

 
 
 

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