Purpose of the ESTech Corridor

• World-Class Technology Innovation – to embrace and adopt technological and innovative thinking and the ingredients that support these entities by leveraging world-class, high-technology institutions and technology assets.

• International Leader – to become an international leader in research, innovation and scientific applications, most notably in the areas of robotic, computer animation/gaming, and biomedical uses.

• Existing Technology-Driven Talent – to take advantage of an existing educated and available workforce—groomed with a strong regional work ethic—from high-tech companies in the region that have a plethora of high-quality employees from which to choose.

• Entrepreneurship – to develop new markets; mobilize capital resources for new business and/or business expansion; introduce new technologies, industries, and products; and to create employment.

• Economic Development – to promote economic stability for the region and the well-being of its inhabitants by creating and/or retaining jobs and supporting and growing incomes and the tax base, as well as providing policies and programs explicitly directed at providing infrastructure and services.

• Competitive Location – to partner with and support efforts to enhance the region’s role as a strong, competitive, culturally attractive and entrepreneurial player in the global economy, with a particular emphasis on technology and knowledge-based areas of endeavor.

• Competitive Business Costs – to assist businesses turn a profit, succeed and expand by offering competitive overall business costs.

• Family Living – to attract businesses through affordable housing costs, lower personal tax burdens, easier commutes, comparable schools—all with the same, or improved, amenities and opportunities as the world's other top technology areas.

• Culture and Lifestyle Diversity – to attract the talent of tomorrow in a region with four distinct seasons—convenient skiing; bike riding; over 75 hiking and running routes; whitewater rafting; lakes; mountains; world-class vineyards; museums; and enough good food and hospitality to stay constantly energized and entertained.

• Collaboration – to promote and enable collaboration between businesses, academic and research institutions, and to ensure businesses have access to, and benefit from, the local knowledge base.

• Infrastructure – to develop and improve the infrastructure of the Corridor, so that a complete range of high-quality accommodations that satisfy the demands of technology-led businesses is offered.

• Exchange of ideas – to have a relatively unimpeded exchange of ideas and techniques, through both formal organizations and informal personal ties, even across company lines; flattened corporate structures, with a strong focus on innovation and risk taking and a concomitant tolerance of failure.

• Marketing – to promote, through advertising, sales promotion, publicity, personal selling, branding, and market research, the Corridor as a prime location for technology-related businesses.

• Education – to coordinate and promote technical symposiums, workshops, seminars and discussions as a channel for the exchange of information within the Corridor, community, State and country and to "play" with novel technology, which, when bolstered by advanced engineering, channeled by astute management, and communicated appropriately, will do much to create the industrial powerhouse the ESTech Corridor plans to be.