Do you remember my post from December on Collier County’s Project Innovation program? Well, it is time for me to bring this group up again because they have a fabulous event happening this week! On Thursday, April 29, 2010 we have the opportunity to meet with Jackson Laboratory to discuss the Jax Florida Institute becoming a reality in Collier County. Collier has the opportunity to have a research institute for genome studies and DNA research. This is extremely exciting!
For those of you that aren’t familiar with this group, I had mentioned the following in a previous post:
Project Innovation is an initiative that was launched last year by the EDC Board that has brought together community business people in somewhat of a think-tank concept to generate solutions for economic matters facing Collier County. A number of volunteers from across the county, representing both non-profit and for-profit organizations, were divided into specific actionable improvement areas including: innovation, quality of place, talent, business climate, infrastructure and governance. Within each of these areas items were proposed and are already underway like the Bayshore redevelopment master plan, the Children’s Museum of Naples, the Gordon River Greenway, Heritage Trail, Immokalee Regional Airport Master Plan, STEM Council, Tamiami Angel Fund and a regional branding campaign.
Here are the details for the upcoming event:
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Telford Education Building (NCH)
350 7th Street
North Naples, FL
Community Conversation 9:00a.m-10:00am
Pre-Registration Required – Click Here
You definitely don’t want to miss this…See you there!
