The mission of Innovate Washington is to make Washington the best place to develop, build, and deploy innovative products, services and solutions to serve the world so that ideas developed in Washington lead to quality jobs in Washington. It is to be the primary agency focused on growing our innovation-based economy, and responding to the technology transfer needs of existing businesses in Washington.
Innovate Washington will implement Washington’s sector focused economic development strategy. Starting with the clean energy sector and building on the recommendations of the Clean Energy Leadership Council (CELC), it provides a single point of accountability and leverage for combined public and private sector investments. In implementing the recommendations of the CELC, Innovate Washington will leverage existing strengths in the State’s clean energy sector to deliver measureable results in collaboration with industry and higher education to achieve quality, technology-based job creation throughout Washington.
