After months of conceptualization and research centered around boosting West Michigan's competitiveness, WIRED is ready to launch it's second phase: execution of ideas on generating jobs thorough innovation, manufacturing, healthcare and design.
According to excerpts from the story:
Now 18 months and $4.3 million into West Michigan's Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development Initiative, administrators of the $15 million, federally funded program are anticipating significant activity in the coming months as Phase II gets underway.
Last month, the West Michigan Strategic Alliance presented the results of 12 separate programs, known in WIRED as "innovations," to its advisory board. Eight of those were approved for second-stage funding. Two other innovations — both research projects — have been successfully completed. Of the two remaining, one project is in stasis and one has been terminated.
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