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Think small and region can grow big

The Puget Sound region can fret about Boeing. Tacoma may be despondent over Russell.

Don’t expect a lot of sympathy in Southwest Washington. They’ve got the same issues to worry about – the loss of long-standing industries and companies, and the recession taking a bite out of what remains – and the same Big Questions as everywhere else.

Where will the jobs of tomorrow come from? Where will the industries and companies of tomorrow that will generate those jobs come from?

But Southwest Washington is not without some answers to those questions, as illustrated by the companies exhibiting at the recent Pacific Mountain Region Industry and Innovation Expo ’09, held at Little Creek Casino and Resort near Shelton.

Here’s one possible answer: A proliferation of innovative, niche-seeking small and medium-sized manufacturers the region is growing the way it used to produce Douglas-fir seedlings.

Full Story: http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/955436.html

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