Federal Water Tech Cluster
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Business
Milwaukee Received Federal Designation as a "Water Technology Cluster",One of Four Newly Named Regional Innovation Centers Receiving Funds through the FederalSmall Business Administration
The designation drives homes Milwaukee MayorTom Barrett's efforts to brand Milwaukee as the "fresh coast" and his messaging around the private-public effort to grow the city's research and entrepreneurial profile in water technology.
A delegation of Milwaukee business leaders including Barrett, representatives from theWater Council, university leaders and water tech company executives, visited Washington, D.C., in late July, where Barrett said they successfully pitched Milwaukee as a regional hub of water tech.
Barrett told the Milwaukee Business Journal the SBA particularly wanted to spotlight the Global Water Center's partnership between government and local businesses as a national model. Of the four innovation clusters named Tuesday, Milwaukee was the only single city — rather than multi-state region — named.
The other new "innovation clusters" announced by the SBA were the Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama-Florida marine industries and technology cluster, southeastern New Mexico's autonomous and unmanned systems cluster and the Ozarks Region's retail, supply chain and food processing cluster, which spans northwestern Arkansas, northeast Oklahoma and southeast Missouri.
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