WSU Downtown Seattle

Economic Development

Driving relevant local, national,
and global engagement

 
We Build Human Capital for the Future: Careers are shifting towards rewarding innovation, realized through a sequence of jobs and multiple employers. We will track our success not only on the ability of our students and Washingtonians to obtain quality jobs, but also to create new jobs - a key criteria of success in an entrepreneurial economy.
 
We Consult and Assist Business: Long the domain of Extension faculty, today faculty and staff across the institution are called to service in helping address Washington’s needs and ambitions. We gauge our progress in the frequency and outcome of our consulting, education, and advising to Washington’s private sector.
 
We Support Better Government: Providing both the analytics, and often facilitating the process, the research and deliberative skills among faculty and staff are called upon at all levels of governance to improve public policy.
 

We Fuel the New Economy with Ideas: Creativity is the university’s stock-in-trade, and WSU is one of Washington’s universities with a research mission among a broad range of unique fields in agriculture, veterinary medicine, engineering, and environmental sciences among others. Our progress is measured among the many transactions necessary to move the best ideas to the marketplace.

WSU Downtown Seattle, Washington State University, 901 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2900, Seattle, Washington 98164, 206-448-1330