Increasing Innovation Capacity in Greater Trail

In January 2003, KAST initiated a project entitled Increasing Innovation Capacity in Greater Trail. The project is in support of the Lower Columbia Congress Development Team's interest in an Innovation Centre. The project involves researching existing models on innovation centres, organizing a focus group, and compiling the results of the research and focus group into a report.

KAST brought together community stakeholders in order to explain the proposed project and build community support. As part of the project KAST organized a focus group session with local companies in order to gather input from them related to their experiences as technology entrepreneurs. The primary objective of the session was to obtain input regarding potential actions that could be taken to promote innovation. KAST then completed the Research Report and distributed it to community stakeholders.

KAST then convened a meeting of the stakeholders to review research findings, and consider potential future actions. A Meeting Report was prepared and distributed to the stakeholders. Both reports were submitted to the Lower Columbia Community Development Team for their consideration.

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