West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation

Economic development activities which are focused on planning, construction, leasing and operation of research and development organizations and technology-based businesses within or ancillary to the i-79 Technology park located in fairmont, wv.

Commercialization activities provide business support services to entrepreneurs and businesses interested in the development and commercialization of a product. Seeks to provide services to any West Virginia entrepreneur whose product demonstrates commercial viability.

Technology-based research and related programs. These activities focus on utilization of technology-based research as a vehicle for economic development and diversification. Much of the Foundation's work is provided to the federal and/or state government, particularly the united states department of defense. The Foundation has strategically designed "techology clusters" around High potential, sustainable, Technology target areas that are viable from both a business and technical perspective. These areas include product line engineering, biometrics technologies, computing technologies, software suitability testing, identification technologies, information warfare/security technologies, computational grid applications, robotics and internet-based web-site support services.

Affiliate programs, workforce education and small business support services which provide workforce education and networking opportunities to the public and local technology-based companies.